Idiots?
I'm not one of them, but what makes them idiots? Seems kind of uncalled for.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2026
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It just wouldn’t be a lemmy post without a smug sense of superiority.
Seems like you feel superior to them
That’s what I’m thinking
I bought the win version, because I have a five year old win 10 computer I’m using until win 10 is no longer supported, and I can’t get office for free anymore.
When win 10 is no longer supported, that’s a Linux computer.
Would I be an idiot, if they cancelled support for mine? I guess so. I’m waiting for some edgelord to tell me I am, probably accompanied by y0u sH00d jUsT g0 LinUx n0w
Yeah, no rush.
Come on over to the Linux side when it suits you. You're welcome to the family when you're ready and that computer is ready. 🤟
From the OP of the original post: https://lemmy.ml/comment/26214965
Getting a Post not found on that one.
Weird. Works fine for me. Here's the text:
Disclaimer: I wrote "idiot" to describe someone who paid for the product not because they're actually idiots, but it's because Microsoft is treating them like that: their official solution on the website is "simply subscribe to the latest and greatest or buy a new "perpetual" license to office 2024 to continue using what you paid for"
Ah okay, thank you for pasting that in for me.
I see, that makes sense, then. It was a bit hard to know that it was from that perspective. 😅
I suppose they call them idiots because they trusted microslop's "eternal" definition and even paid for it when there are FOSS alternatives?
A: gets scammed by company
B: You're so stupid, you should have known that company was going to scam you.
As if Microsoft was founded just yesterday and wasn’t scamming everyone at everything for like decades, right?
Not sure why they’re idiots, trying to go the non-sub option is smart, doesn’t vote for subs. Microsoft is the asshole here.
Rossman posted a video a while ago about how Microsoft updated their site without noting they updated it to gaslight their customers into thinking it's always said that.
There's a reason these companies are trying to kill the archive sites, it lets people call them on their bullshit.
Edit: YouTube source
Victim-blaming is the real stupidity here. Microsoft harasses its customers (again) and now the customers are the idiots?
This is the same type of propaganda Nvidia is trying to push. Jensen Huang saying "people should have planned better, the rising prices of hardware was imminent" is the exact same tactic of being the cause of the problem and still putting the blame of everyone else.
imo it was sarcasm
Well, you're not wrong, but who the heck buys a "perpetual" license for a Microsoft product unless it's for a company? And especially why pay for stupid boost water office if you could have libre for free?
If it's not stupidity then at least ignorance. Doesn't mean Microsoft is an arse for doing that.
classic Micro$lop
LIBREOFFICE is the answer!
I was activating office installs for customers from the early 2000s not that long ago. Wtf happened that they are now disabling 2019?
It turns out that in modern versions (for Mac) they inserted a timebomb that disables the license check.
"Sorry the software now is EOL we can't send an update to disable the timebomb that we set five years ago"
Users of office 2021 are luckier (for now) because it goes EOL in October, so they can receive the June patch that moves the July timebomb forward another five years
This is pretty wild to see. Based on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Office
Some people could have purchased this as late as early October 2021.
If companies are going to literally steal things from the user, then why would I buy anything from them in the future?
This is a clear sign to everyone to not buy anything from Microsoft moving forward, because they clearly think they can just take it back at any time.
All 8 users.
"This will happen to Office 2021 and 2024 in the future"
not stated by the article
The Verge article isn't making any of these ridiculous claims.