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> After Office 2019 for Mac reached end of support in October 2023, Microsoft assured customers their installed apps would "continue to function." The July 13, 2026 conversion instead drops the apps into a Microsoft-defined "reduced functionality mode," in which files can be opened and viewed but not edited or saved.

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Microsoft_Office_2019_and_2021_for_Mac_view-only_conversion_(2026)

#microsoft #plannedobsolescence #obsolescence #lockin

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026)

Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...

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Aerofreak | USA WTF?5d ago

@BjoernBeck

Irgendwann wird es vielleicht auch der letzte verstanden haben, dass praktisch alle Produkte von #Microsoft ein einziges Lock-in-Geschäft sind.

Tom's Hardware Italia May 26

⚠️ Gli agenti “tuttofare” restano un miraggio, ma il lock-in che creano è concreto: scegli strumenti aperti prima che scegliere diventi difficile. #AI #LockIn

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/business/gli-agenti-che-fanno-tutto-da-soli-sono-un-miraggio-ma-il-lock-in-che-producono-e-reale

Gli agenti che fanno tutto da soli sono un miraggio, ma il lock-in che producono è reale

SAP, Salesforce e ServiceNow vendono la stessa promessa con tre architetture incompatibili. Per il cliente significa scegliere il proprio fornitore unico, non l'autonomia.

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Ecologia Digital May 24

"The letter frames #opensource not as ideology but as the precondition for what it calls “#pivotability” and “exit velocity”: the ability to move infrastructure when the political weather changes.
That is the right frame…two responses to an institution that disappoints you: leave it (exit), or push to change it (voice). His core point is that voice has weight only when exit is credible. Apply that to digital infrastructure: #lockin is the opposite of #sovereignty."
https://joost.blog/open-source-first-not-enough/

Open Source First is right, but not enough. · Joost.blog

Open Source First is the right EU procurement principle. Funding the commons it depends on is the other half. What FAIR taught me about the supply side.

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