For those who want more, here is more rant about Win11, from arstechnica.com:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/windows-11-has-made-the-clean-windows-install-an-oxymoron/

Finally, we find a support page that explains to us how to download office (the direct link is still further down the results page).

For company and university login, it links to a chinese domain (???) and for German Office365 we can use a German page...
...which has an invalid certificate.

- login.partner.microsoftonline.cn
- portal.office.de

Yay more domains...

<Rant 7/7>

But we don't want to *buy* Office365, we already have an account, we just want to download it.
So we scroll further and find *another full page of ads*. More results to buy microsoft office (this time from a third party reseller), and the third result is for officesuite.com, which I find interesting.

<Rant 5/7>

Now, if we search for "download office365", we are greeted with... ...Exactly! More ads!

The complete first page is ads: The search results area on the left is filled with an ad for microsoft.com to *buy* Office365. Okay fair enough.
But also for some random third-party site where we can maybe(?) download an adware infested version of Office?

<Rant 4/7>

What do we get for our patience? A 'startpage' that is filled with 75% ads and 25% rage bait or click bait. I am so sorry for those, who must consume their daily news this way or (worse) think this is 'the internet'.

<Rant 3/7>