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Have a "Lifetime" Without Microsoft
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 03, 2026,
updated Jun 03, 2026
The other day we wrote about this evil thing<br>Microsoft does to Office users. It turns out that a "lifetime"<br>is only about 5 years. Microsoft is really desperate for money, so<br>it has resorted to false marketing - an obvious breach it can get<br>sued for (class action).
In a nutshell, users are now forced to abandon their "lifetime"<br>Office and pay for Office yet again:
"Calligra and LibreOffice ought to make hay with this," an<br>associate said about<br>this blunder, "and, above all else, promote the advantages of<br>their support of the OpenDocument Format" (ODF).
Maybe they will say something soon. The online rage over this is<br>still ongoing; some people are not aware yet. █
Slop Prompting is Not a Coding Skill and Slop Deserves Shunning
Corporate Media Participates in the Lie That Mass Layoffs at GitLab and Loss of Geographic Footprint in More Than a Third of Countries is "AI" and Thus "Success Story"
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