MicroSoft Plans to Screw Mac Users of Office 2011
Microsoft tells some Mac Office users to pass on Apple's High Sierra
Microsoft warns Office for Mac 2011 users not to upgrade to Apple's macOS High Sierra when the new operating system launches in September.
MicroSoft didn't want to get left of of the plans Adobe stared of sending you a bill ever month for the use of their products. They want that information on you, your credit card, name and address, and mostly that email address. And of course they want your money every month.
I've used MicroSoft Word and Office for decades but personally, I'll be saying goodbye to MicroSoft and their attempt at extorting more money out of me.
https://www.computerworld.com/article/32...
BTW, I'd sure buy a little app that would get around this extortion attempt if someone wants to write it.
I going to have to be the one to break it to all my customers that upgrade to High Sierra and don't know that MicroSoft has done this. I'm sure that MicroSoft is not going to make a big deal out of telling people and Apple probably won't either. Maybe some tiny warning in very fine print. You just suddenly won't be able to open your word and excel documents and be forced to pay again for what you already paid for. Man, do I love Corporate America and their ethics.
Is this a worthwhile discussion?
9 Comments
You could buy Office 2016 or switch to Windows :P
by Alex Niculescu
There's probably hack. Just like there is for Adobe's products. If I had a Mac I could upgrade to high Sierra I'd try to find it.
by George A.
@alexniculescu I've already PAID for Office, why would I want to buy it again, just because MicroSoft wants more money from me. When I buy a car I don't expect it to stop running in 6 years just because the car company wants to sell me a new one.
by mayer
But you can't keep old & outdated software forever, can you?
by Alex Niculescu
I don't agree that one should run old software forever, but that's up to the owner of the machine and the person who paid for the license. Not the vendor of the software.
At some point the company may cut it off for support, but it should run forever. I ran 10.6 up until 10.9 came out, so I effectively used an old version of OS X for ~5 years. I gave up on it once application support started to move away from 10.6 and towards 10.7+.
by Nick
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