Post #3067221
2026-06-03 06:23 UTC
This is so Microsoft on so many levels.
Imagine buying Microsoft Office 2019 for your Mac. Perpetual licence. Just a good ol' software in a box (except without a box, I guess, times are digital).
"It's so great to own a real software and not a subscription", you think to yourself.
Now Microsoft basically says: "I'll do ya one better, pal. Now your Office 2019 will work in read-only mode. Hope you wrote everything you needed. Get a subscription already".
I didn't know you can do that. Sell a software and then just brick it with a proper announcement like it's the most natural thing to do.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/26/05/28/microsoft-is-killing-office-2019-for-mac-and-iphone-and-you-cant-do-much-about-it
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@stefano@mastodon.bsd.cafe 2026-06-03 06:40
@chesheer@mastodon.bsd.cafe I don't know about the legal side, but morally speaking, it's a breach of trust. I buy your software -> at most, you stop updating it. But blocking it... no, that's not right. This is why I love open source, or at least companies that guarantee a certain level of continuity. And honestly, I don't expect anything different from Microsoft than what happened.