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  • Re: Microsoft quietly disable Office 2019 'perpetual' license

    From noel@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 01, 2026 07:37:50
    On Sun, 31 May 2026 07:42:30 +0200, Nomen Nescio wrote:

    Forcing everybody onto subscription model.
    Well open sauce alternatives here I come.

    we put apache's open office on all boxes (windaz as well as linux), ok so
    it doesnt have "publisher" but seriously, its 21st century and even M$
    doesnt support it last I heard

    -AOO because I've used it since forever, waaaaayyy back when it was the original sun's star office, it's suited my needs perfectly and the
    businesses since, so they dont make releases every 3 months, only when
    they need to, IMHO *that* is a good thing, shows maturity.

    -Libreoffice, did look at it twice some years apart, despite its core
    code is actually open office, they made it bloatware, it ran slower than
    M$ office and way slower than AOO, NFI how they butchered it that badly,
    so we stick to what we know.


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  • From Axel@3:633/10 to All on Monday, June 01, 2026 10:41:50
    Rod Speed wrote:
    noel <deletethis@invalid.lan> wrote
    Nomen Nescio wrote

    Forcing everybody onto subscription model.
    Well open sauce alternatives here I come.

    we put apache's open office on all boxes (windaz as well as linux),
    ok so
    it doesnt have "publisher" but seriously, its 21st century and even M$
    doesnt support it last I heard

    You are wrong about that, but support is ending soon

    There is nothing like Access either

    -AOO because I've used it since forever, waaaaayyy back when it was the
    original sun's star office, it's suited my needs perfectly and the
    businesses since, so they dont make releases every 3 months, only when
    they need to, IMHO *that* is a good thing, shows maturity.

    -Libreoffice, did look at it twice some years apart, despite its core
    code is actually open office, they made it bloatware, it ran slower than
    M$ office and way slower than AOO, NFI how they butchered it that badly,
    so we stick to what we know.

    Works fine and identically to open office for me

    LO is fast on my system. I use Linux Mint and since Libre Office is
    native to it I haven't bothered to install OO.

    --
    Linux Mint 22.3


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