{"id":106607,"date":"2026-06-01T13:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=ba20edce4d31c337e28386d152332378"},"modified":"2026-06-01T13:52:55","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T17:52:55","slug":"microsoft-is-intentionally-bricking-all-office-for-mac-2019-2021-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=106607","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft is intentionally bricking all Office for Mac 2019\/2021 installations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: OSNews<\/a><\/p>\n

Article note: It's just so blatantly greasy.<\/div>

You’re a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019 or 2021, eschewing the Office 365 subscription, so you could keep on using Office 2019\/2021 forever if you wanted to. Just like in the old days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve got some bad news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS and iOS, set for July 13, 2026 when a license-validation certificate used by the Office apps expires. After Office 2019 for Mac reached end of support in October 2023, Microsoft assured customers their installed apps would “continue to function.” The July 13, 2026 conversion instead drops the apps into a Microsoft-defined “reduced functionality mode,” in which files can be opened and viewed but not edited or saved. By May 30, 2026, the original 2023 end-of-support page had been re-dated and rewritten on Microsoft’s site; the “continue to function” clause was removed.<\/p>\n↫ Consumer Rights Wiki<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Microsoft’s advice to the users they’re stealing from is to keep using the applications as mere viewers, switch to the free Office 365 web applications, pay for a 365 subscription, or buy a brand new regular copy of Office 2024. None of these make any sense, and clearly, all of this should be illegal, but it’s not because the software industry is a clown show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Proprietary software is unethical.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You\u2019re a smart cookie, so you opted to buy a copy of Microsoft Office for macOS back in 2019 …<\/p>\n

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