Tuta📢🚨 If you use Office 2019 on Mac → ONE MONTH FROM TODAY, Microsoft is DISABLING it.
Microsoft forces you to purchase office 2024 or Microsoft 365 if you want to continue editing docs but YOU MUST NOT.
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“All your Office 2019 apps will continue to function,” is what Microsoft promised in 2023 when it announced the end of support.
THEN, last month it quietly updated that support note & removed saying that apps would continue to function, instead, it replaced it with:
"Rest assured that all your Office 2019 apps won’t lose any data.”
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WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?
If you use Office 2019 on iPhone, iPad, or Mac, Microsoft will put the suite into read-only mode.
❌ You can no longer edit, save, or create new documents.
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Do yourself a favor & do not purchase another Microsoft license (only valid for 5 years) → it's time to break away from BIG TECH.
Switch to better alternatives:
✅ Libre office
✅ Euro Office
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The_Universality@Tutanota I know that OnlyOffice made some shitstorm, but it shouldn't be omitted. For those who are used to Microslop "365" office, OnlyOffice is easy to begin with as it copies its interface.
alexraffa 
@The_Universality @Tutanota
Also uses Microsoft file formats, perpetuating the lock-in due to the proprietary formats.
Only using an open file format standard like ODF Open Document Format, we can own our documents!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/author/italovignoli/
Also uses Microsoft file formats, perpetuating the lock-in due to the proprietary formats.
Only using an open file format standard like ODF Open Document Format, we can own our documents!
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/author/italovignoli/
@alexraffa @Tutanota Ypu're right. I forgot about the default being doc_ instead of od_.
Wasn't there a setting to overwrite that, tho?
(I realize that most won't bother to change it tho.)
Okuna
Stefan 'lerothas' D. 
@Okuna
It is for now, because the base - OnlyOffice - lacks good ODF support. But nextcloud is working on getting it good and making ODF the default.
Nick from The Linux Experiment had a good view on it in his daily patron news: the most used format is ooxml from M$ and M$ office lacks ODF support. So you will not get users if you don't support ooxml. If Euro office is widely spread, you can easily switch to ODF, because most users have a competent editor for that.
I don't know, if that is their thinking, but it's an interesting approach.