Microsoft’s messaging on the subject hasn’t done it any favors, either. Its end-of-support page for Office 2019 for Mac, originally posted in October 2023, once told owners to “Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps will continue to function.” A revision now dated May 15, 2026 has dropped that line, replacing it with a note that their data “can be accessed in a supported Microsoft 365 or Office product.”
Updating software to make it not work should be illegal.
Anyway, for people with casual office needs, the Apple apps (Pages, Numbers, Keynote) would suffice.
Otherwise, LibreOffice.
Really, no reason to pay for MS Office.
Aren’t the new versions of Apple office apps heavily pushing their subscriptions now?
I use it pretty regularly at home, and haven’t seen anything that significant other than the premium templates being highlighted in the sidebar when you create a new document.
I did run into a scenario where you had the option to preview smart features while editing thereby showing you how it could be applicable in the immediate short term, but then annoyingly removed the data entered if you didn’t want to subscribe. Otherwise it works about the same as you’d come to expect the software to run.
Nope?
Germany has paragraphs about “Computersabotage” i think?
Imagine if English were like German and words like this were commonplace
A vew - less?
Libreoffice
LibreOffice is generally better anyway. I’ll admit there are some formatting things I find smoother in Office, but overall it’s bloatware and it keeps crashing. I really hate Office and avoid it whenever I can.
I can’t recommend this enough. I have been using LibreOffice for a few years and saved myself a lot of money.
Saved even more money a few months ago when I fully switched my OS to open source and left the Microsoft/Apple walled gardens behind.
This is a piss poor excuse from Microsoft for letting a certificate expire. How fucking hard is it to renew a certificate? I do it every fucking day at work. This is purely just forced/planned obsolescence. They want users to use their subscription-based platform on the web.
Ask anyone in IT or tech and they’ll confirm that this is the easiest thing for Microsoft to do, the veil is so thin here, it’s purely to get people to pay them a subscription.
You only had one job
And now it has a second life… pushing people to libre office!
And it did that job for 7 years.
My mom still uses Office '97 (no joke). I told her it’s best to stick with it.
Just cut off the programs internet acces and any updates to it, then they cant break it.
It won’t help, Office relies on being digitally signed before it will run, and Microsoft is intentionally not renewing the certificate in order to force people off these older perpetual licenses.
It should be illegal to pull this kind of digital theft from people who paid for the software. No one who paid for this was ever told their access was time limited.
This was my favorite version of office for the Mac.
For PC, I held onto Office 2003 Professional for as long as I could.
Euro-Office
I’m looking forward to giving it a whirl. I interact with other humans when sharing and developing documents, so intercompatibility with the office and Office 2003 standards is literally the second most important thing for me, and all of the arbitrary also-ran file formats are a nice to have, not a need to have.
As evidenced by the fact that even the centers can’t get on the same page about what alternative formats they feel should be mandated instead.
