📢🚨 If you use Office 2019 on Mac → ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, Microsoft is DISABLING it.
Microsoft forces you to purchase office 2024 or Microsoft 365 if you want to continue editing docs but YOU MUST NOT.
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@Tutanota Er zijn voldoende Europese alternatieven voor Microshit 365. Ik heb 365 vervangen door Ashampoo Office 9 (Ashampoo is German), Onedrive is vervangen door Juttacloud (Norway). Adobe is ook verdwenen en ik werk nu Abelsoft Easy PDF en voor Brouwer en mailclient Vivaldi(Norway/Iceland.)
@Tutanota LibreOffice ftw
@Tutanota Re Microsoft Office being disabled on Mac in 1 month - you can buy Softmaker Office 2024 which works with MS files without conversion.
https://www.softmaker.com/en/shop/softmaker-office
I am not connected with that company, I just use Office 24, on Linux, I bought it, I own it! And I am happy!
@Tutanota Perfect time for people to jump ship and upgrade to LaTeX which is free and open source. It can do everything MS Word and PowerPoint can do and about a million things more and you can choose your editor. This is a decision you will never regret.
Or if you just want a free and open source alternative, or need the full office suite, then there's Libre Office.
As always, screw Microsoft.
@Tutanota but lets be real who still uses Microsoft Apps?
“All your Office 2019 apps will continue to function,” is what Microsoft promised in 2023 when it announced the end of support.
THEN, last month it quietly updated that support note & removed saying that apps would continue to function, instead, it replaced it with:
"Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps won’t lose any data.”
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@Tutanota Going for open source solutions and Linux in general worked great for me so far. Haven't used microslop products for a long time.
@Tutanota For a long time, I was fine with accepting that software terms and conditions could be unilaterally changed. Until ~2015, updates usually added more functionality rather than taking it away.
Now, that same clause is being used to make things *worse* after purchase: more tracking, more paid functionality, and now even blocking basic features that were promised.
Is this still not illegal?
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
If you use Office 2019 on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, Microsoft will put the suite into read-only mode.
❌ You can no longer edit, save, or create new documents.
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@Tutanota If the app can‘t access the internet, how would it be possible for MS to put it into read-only mode?
Do yourself a favor & do not purchase another Microsoft license (only valid for 5 years) → it's time to break away from BIG TECH.
Switch to better alternatives:
✅ Libre office
✅ Euro Office
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@Tutanota @libreoffice This is one of the finest piece. Sure it takes some learning for beginners & needs a few fine-tuning. The Hybrid PDF feature is one of the best features.
@Tutanota I was using LibreOffice when I was proofreading a community newspaper, since the files were in MS Word format. I sent the fixed versions back. I got an email one day from the editor of the newspaper asking how I could keep all the formatting of the .DOC files while being smaller in size, byte-wise. He was surprised at what I was using.
I still use LibreOffice for one thing and another. A fine piece of software.
@Tutanota
For anyone who hasn't tried it, the switch from Word to LibreOffice is so easy and smooth 👍🏼
And it's free, forever.
@Tutanota you support a company only supporting MS formats
I am puzzled
@Tutanota thanks!! do you happen to have recs for password managers? onepassword has ai pollution and bitwarden is doing god knows what 😕
@Tutanota I know that OnlyOffice made some shitstorm, but it shouldn't be omitted. For those who are used to Microslop "365" office, OnlyOffice is easy to begin with as it copies its interface.
@Tutanota Libre Office is awesome 😎
Wie kann ich Euro-Office auf einem Desktop-Computer nutzen? Ich finde keinen Weg eine Installation außerhalb eines Servers vorzunehmen.
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