On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is software
where users thought they were paying a one-time price for lifetime
ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-end-of-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were
perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is software
where users thought they were paying a one-time price for lifetime
ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-end-of-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were
perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
On 6/12/26 8:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is software
where users thought they were paying a one-time price for lifetime
ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-
end-of-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were
perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
No, but they could not open all documents (think *.xlx) from much later versions. Important if you collaborate with others.
On 6/12/26 8:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is
software where users thought they were paying a one-time price
for lifetime ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in
the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-end-of-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were
perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
No, but they could not open all documents (think *.xlx) from much
later versions. Important if you collaborate with others.
On 6/12/26 8:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is software where users thought they were paying a one-time price for lifetime ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-end-of
-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
No, but they could not open all documents (think *.xlx) from much later versions. Important if you collaborate with others.
On Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:23:27 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/12/26 8:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:13:03 -0400, Tom Elam wrote:
On 6/10/26 11:16 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
Just to be clear, this isn’t cloud-based rentware: this is
software where users thought they were paying a one-time price
for lifetime ownership. You know, how software used to be sold in
the old days.
But no. Microsoft is disabling the software that these users
supposedly own. They won’t be able to use it any more.
<https://www.theverge.com/news/947518/microsoft-office-2019-for-mac-end-of-support-no-edit>
It has never been the case that standalone Office versions were
perpetually functional. At some point older version file formats
became unreadable to new versions and updates ceased.
But you never lost the ability to use your old version to continue
working with your old documents, did you?
Well, now it’s happened.
No, but they could not open all documents (think *.xlx) from much
later versions. Important if you collaborate with others.
You seem to think that’s the only way, or the only important way, to
use an office suite.
On 6/14/26 8:06 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
You seem to think that’s the only way, or the only important way,
to use an office suite.
In my consulting business I had to work with Excel, Word and
PowerPoint documents sent to and received from numerous client on
both Windows and Apple platforms. Compatibility was very important
to that business.
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