My digital life has gotten noticeably better since switching to Linux and other FOSS
Libreoffice. I tried it long ago and it was bad, but that is no longer the case. Give it a chance
“But the interface looks slightly different and I’m scared of being in charge of things”
Whats really funny is that the interface is closer to MS Office 2003 which was Office pre “ribbon” interface. So the current version of MS office is actually the weird one that changed.
Yeah I remember when they introduced the ribbon and I hated it. Now I prefer it
You can change the interface, including a ribbon style interface.
To be fair the interface is pretty kluncky. But it’ll do.
I don’t think it was ever bad, the compatibility with Microsoft office is not completely their yet making it not usable to Excel experts of for some teachers due to docx support being a bit lackluster
I think Excel has more functionality than any of the FOSS alternatives, unfortunately. It’s some pretty powerful software.
It is worth pointing out that the only reason docx support is lackluster is because of active efforts from MS to undermine third party support. It is a interesting story actually, but I don’t recall exactly, but it goes like this, there was some regulatory push to open formats and MS undermined this by creating and making the docx (and all other *x family) open but make it so convoluted and unnecessarily difficult. If I am not mistaken they even keep unnecessarily updating and changing it so third party is always lagging behind in support and the cherry on top that MS don’t correctly implement its own format on purpose so the files are effectively broken for anyone that follows the spec to a T.
It was never bad.
The dark theme controls are still pretty bad, bruh.
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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
They even edited information about support, it was meant to work but they edited it to your files will be safe and openable in word 365 app
Honestly just use LibreOffice. It’s pretty good.
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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.
Beautiful language
Mon putain ami québécois 👍🏽
Forked from unreliable russian onlyoffice
That’s a fine reason for a fork
Sure, but we shouldn’t rely on russian derivatives
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yeah. I could see them deprecating O365 hooks and services or something, but the entire suite? That’s bullshit.
Piracy is now fully justified
Why steal a moldy bread when there’s fresh bread for free? https://www.libreoffice.org/
(Also, the moldy bread is highly addictive and watches you masturbate)
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
It’s only logical
This is the way.
If they can just break something I’ve paid for… then it is fair for me to take it without paying
and not just for microslop products, but all megacorp products.
what one of them does reflects on the rest of them. if they wanted to, they could have lobbied for fair regulation. they didn’t, or didn’t succeed.
LibreOffice is $Free.99, y’all.
Microslop doing Microslop things as per usual.
How is this even legal?
If it is, in fact, legal, it’s because there’s a weasel clause in the clickwrap that says, in effect, “We can change this agreement in any way at any time. Not you, just us.”
Wait, did one of them actually say this?
Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.
Because it’s Microsoft and whether anybody likes it or not, they’ll do whatever they want and at best, lose a few pennies.
$$$
I distinctly remember the conversations about Office’s phone home system and people specifically saying “this seems problematic” and Microsoft hand waving those concerns away.
it’s not the ‘phoning home’ that’s doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won’t get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are ‘out of support’.
Literal planned obsolescence
more like forced obsolescence, planned implies they do it in the future, but MS is forcing it now.
It was planned at the time they released it…
Well it kinda is because that certificate is needed for the phoning home. If it didn’t need to communicate at all it wouldn’t have needed an SSL certificate so there would have been nothing to expire.
How soon before they start doing this to Win10 installations?
Won’t help with Macs …
But if you really insist on using Windows or Office: look into Mass Gravel.
