Won’t help with Macs …
But if you really insist on using Windows or Office: look into Mass Gravel.
I found that Pages and Numbers work just fine for me at home, and it comes included with my Mac. And if I’m truly desperate, Google Docs and Sheets are always a viable alternative.
Cool but if you handle complex documents with stuff like macros you’re straight out of luck. Even if you can get some compatibility you’re never going to be quite sure it will all work and look perfectly.
This is how Microsoft keeps their position.
Or if you’re not desperate open office/libre office forget the meta because I don’t fuck with docs outside of work these days
True. I don’t spend as much time these days word processing as I used to, but I really should get around to downloading libre office.
Microslop doing Microslop things as per usual.
Yay, that’ll be a fun day at work… I’m in charge of administering our fleet of Macs and all the users use MS Office heavily. We are currently not allowed to provide access to Office 365 for data protection reasons, so if they brick the volume license we are currently using I won’t have a viable solution for them, beyond switching to OWA/Apple Mail and some other office suite.
The writing’s been on the wall for a while though. They recently made it so that you can’t hide the Office 365 nag screen while using a volume license, which confuses users into thinking they don’t have a license. I fucking hate Microslop.
Edit: As far as I can tell this will only affect users using a 2019 volume license (which is already not compatible with current versions), but the 2021 license will continue to work? (Source: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/update-microsoft-365-or-office-on-your-macos-or-ios-device-f418ae5d-bb5f-4078-b3d9-9340f5dd084e ). I’d definitely be interested if anyone has more information. In any case, I’m sure it’s just a matter of time until they fuck everyone not using a subscription based license for any of their products.
Edit 2: Nevermind. 13th October is the day Microslop has chosen to fuck me: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/system-requirements/end-of-support-for-office-2021
You’ll still get a few years before the software becomes remotely disabled, though. This story about Office 2019 losing functionality follows Office 2019 losing support in 2023. If that’s the rate things go, then maybe Office 2021 will lose functionality either 2 years from now (7 years after release) or 3 years from now (3 years after losing support).
True, but running EOL software that doesn’t receive updates to known vulnerabilities isn’t really an option.
Yeah, but that’s always been true of paid software licenses for a particular version: it reaches EOL and you have to decide whether to live with the possibility of unpatched known vulnerabilities or pay for an upgrade to a more recent release.
MS Office has been doing this from back in the Windows 3.0 days at least.
True. But Office for Mac uses the same installer for 365, 2021 and 2024 (and 2019 until they EOL’d it). It’s not that they stop updating old software. They just arbitrarily decide you no longer get the updates if you’re on an older license.
Honestly just use LibreOffice. It’s pretty good.
“But it doesn’t have that one function that predicts the circumference of an ant’s hind segment based on the diameter of breadcrumbs it carries! I use that every day for vital work!”
I’m trying to befriend the filter options in libreoffice calc but it really can’t compare with the create table from selection and built in filters and sorting that excel offers.
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scalc/guide/autofilter.htmlThat and also that I haven’t found any good f-droid apk to open the librecalc on my tablet.
All I want to use my tablet for is to change key values in brewing recipes and have them recalculate for the new volume, I prepare my brewing recipes on my computer in librecalc but now I’m stuck with multiple static pdf prints for different common volumes instead of using the real recipe book on the tablet.I keep at it though, my private computer is Microsoft free and will stay that way. Some friction is lessening from getting used to libreoffice calc but some functions just can’t compare, the amazing tables of excel being the one I miss often.
Pardon my french, but WHAT THE FUCK OSTI DE CALISSE DE SAINT SACRAMENT DE VIARGE DE CRISSE DE SAINT CIBOIRE DE TABARNAK?!? OSTI DE MICROSLOP!!!
Fine. https://github.com/Euro-Office it is.
I think it would be appropriate to say “OSTI DE MICROSLOP A MARDE” even.
Forked from unreliable russian onlyoffice
That’s a fine reason for a fork
Sure, but we shouldn’t rely on russian derivatives
Beautiful language
Mon putain ami québécois 👍🏽
These articles go from panic bait to feel good news after you completely switch away from Microslop,
So …if you never let any Microscope product update on your Apple product, you should be fine, right?
“I am altering the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
Same for Linux and office365
Word 365 on Linux is literally sabotaging you, at random deleting texts you previously wrote. Whole sets of words just randomly disappear as if you never typed them. You type them, they’re there, you continue typing and 1-2 paragraphs later, part of the text you wrote is suddenly gone. No undo available or anything, it’s as if it never happened.
It got to the point heere i wrote documents in Google drive, then exported then and imported them in word 365, that did work
Then I found out that all I had to do is send M$ servers a user agent header saying it’s Windows 11 And suddenly everything works
Ah, that was it then? I’m currently forced to use this crap. I had to run office from a virtual machine because office 365 was terribly unreliable. Like, it started fucking up highlights and shits.
In any case, word sucks even if it does not actively try to suck. I have a big list of complaints. If ms has to resort to this tactics, they are actually suffering us.
Can someone else affirm this? Have you recorded it? If this is real it’d be great to have evidence.
Fuuucking christ.
If i have to office i still use my physical 2007 disks.
Just wait. Mac users usually have more money than they need, so they can easily afford lawyers to beat into MicroSlop.
I switched to OpenOffice.org(now LibreOffice) when Microsoft replaced menus with ribbons.
And I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo after being a Google user from nearly the very beginning, because they tried to claim earlier this week that they couldn’t prove I was over 18 years old unless I provided them my legal identification.
Thanks Google, I can’t imagine how the fact that I’ve physically been using your product and logging into the account for more than 20 years would leave any question in your mind that I’m over 18 years old, but you do you.
No regrets with LibreOffice. None.
I bitched and moaned when office 2007 came out. Stupid ribbons. Still hate that shit. Only thing MS office has going for it, that I haven’t found elsewhere, is collaboration and Danish grammar check. I haven’t found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet, outside of ms office that is. But if my job decided to ditch its pricey office subscriptions, I’d be cheeringly installing libreoffice.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID. I got my gmail account when people still paid for invites. How can I be underage? I wasn’t even underage then.
I do hope I get a chance to retrieve all my emails when I get shut out for raising an arthritic middle finger and telling Google to go fuck themselves when asked for ID.
Just going to remind you, because I appreciated when someone reminded me: The best time to run a ‘Google Checkout’ to get a backup is now.
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I haven’t found proper grammar check in my native Danish yet
LanguageTool has it, but I cannot vouch for its accuracy.
Fine unless the company you work for uses MS Office and you have to bring work home. In that case, the seamless compatibility is difficult to bypass.
Any organization that expects you to use your personal IT equipment for work is likely in violation of several privacy laws and incompetent.
You remind me of the time I wanted to complain about noise while I was the only guy able to do anything to reduce noise.
“It’s so loud in here!”
“Well, betanumerus, have you considered shutting the fuck up?”
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Nah mate, farming was where we took the wrong turn. We should go back to hunter/gatherer. I’d kinda like to keep my steam deck tho hmm
On a Mac Apple‘s Office suite is the better choice.
That is certainly a very lemmy thing to say
That was so szmer thing to answer
LibreOffice is $Free.99, y’all.
That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. People bought a license to use a product, with the reasonable expectation that said license would be both perpetual and unchanging.
Yeah, Microsoft is gambling that the number of users who care enough to act are too small, or won’t bother, or won’t realise they can.
This is how big corporations get away with this shit. It’s not “illegal” in the criminal sense, but it is a breach of contract between Microsoft and those affected; and they likely could win against Microsoft.
The good news is the outrage over this is probably more damaging than any settlement or long drawn out legal case even would be. It’s at just the right time as Microsoft deals with major issues and unhappiness with Windows users over poor updates, crappy feature changes to Win 11 and of course force feeding of CoPilot down every users throat, while also decimating their own staff to save money for AI and polluting their own products codebases with shitty AI generated slop. Perfect storm has hit Microsoft, and they don’t even realise how bad it is yet.
It’s crazy how once these companies get big enough, they become a cancer that just slowly self-destructs. Everything that’s going wrong in their business can be blamed solely on them. Just all around gross incompetence in the most absurd, blatant way possible. I really hope that, in the near future, we see the main opinion of Microsoft finally coming around to understanding this redundant company’s pig-brained, slop-obsessed stupidity.
Apple users sue over everything just ask Apple, I mean they just sued and won over Apple Intelegence.
As an Apple user, I laughed at this… the one thing we all want is NOT to have Gemini or AI on our phones. I mean, if we wanted Gemini, we could just use Google & Android.
Yeah. I could see them deprecating O365 hooks and services or something, but the entire suite? That’s bullshit.
class action lawsuits pretty much only exist to enrich lawyers
While generally true, sometimes it is about the principle of it, and the only way it makes sense to address it is through class action.
If I join in on a class action suit, it’s more about making the company pay (and hopefully changing their, and others’, policy to avoid future lawsuits), than getting a check for $8.25 in the mail 3 years down the line.
ok but you recognize they wont change their policy right? they will profit more from their shitty anticonsumer policies than they’ll ever pay through class actions, may as well go full luigi if it’s about making executives pay consequences for their actions
the only way forward is organizing, nothing else will be effective
may as well go full luigi
Wait, you’re telling me that’s an option that people could choose?
I wonder what the world would be like if a whole bunch of people started doing that. Could you imagine?
adventurism is not an effective method for long term change, we need to organize and work together, doing random acts of violence doesn’t really move the needle
ok but you recognize they wont change their policy right?
Except that, historically, there are countless examples of class action suit resulting in large and impactful changes to entire industries.
These sites lists a few, but you can search yourself:
https://www.iveyengineering.com/class-action-lawsuits-2/
https://classactionbuddy.com/blog/famous-class-action-lawsuits-that-changed-history/
(The URL for this one does suggest that there might be some bias, however I’m pretty sure the cases listed are all real)
It’s not perfect, and probably not even close to the best way to do this kind of thing… But it can work
god these are some depressing links, first one includes roe v. wade, third one is a list of corporations doing terrible shit and those corporations are pretty much all doing the exact same shit.
this is all pure cope mate
Why do you think Roe v Wade is a bad example? It made abortion legal for like 50 years.
Sure bud, just ignore:
Brown v. The Board of Education that resulted in the desegregation of all public schools in the US.
The “Scopes Monkey Trial” is why US public schools are even allowed to teach evolution.
Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement which resulted in outlawing advertising tobacco products on billboards and during sporting events, and brought in over $200 billion to states for medical expenses related to smoking.
Both the Enron and WorldCom suits led directly to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
The Agent Orange suit by Vietnam vets that led directly to the Agent Orange Act of 1991.
Etc.
It seems like you think I believe that this is the best and only way for things to change, which is literally the exact opposite of what I said.
because it was rolled back? so it’s obviously not an effective form of long term change?
i’m over this argument, believe whatever you want, i dont care
