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Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac will no longer edit documents after July 13 (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] DetachablePianist@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They baked license server checks into their local installed apps, so now they can just "flip a switch" to disable access.

[โ€“] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Planned obsolescence.