Microsoft Treats Apple Users As Second-Class Citizens, Stripping Office 2019 Of Any Utility While Windows And Microsoft 365 Customers Remain Unscathed

OSTN Staff

The image features a box of 'Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2019' alongside icons for Word, Excel, OneNote, Outlook, Access, Publisher, OneDrive for Business, and Skype for Business.

As someone who bought Microsoft’s Office 2019 lifetime license around 7 years back, the imminent end of support for the software suite on Apple’s platforms feels surreal, made all the more incredulous by the patently blasé attitude with which Microsoft is approaching this blatant forced obsolescence. Office 2019 apps on Apple platforms will soon enter the dreaded “reduced functionality mode,” preventing you from creating new files or editing existing ones When I bought a lifetime license for Office 2019 near the turn of the ongoing decade, I did not know that a “lifetime” to Microsoft is just around 7 years. […]

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