Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents

[SpotOnT]

Office 2021 end of support is in October, so this isn’t really a great deal.

To be fair Microsoft Office isn’t really a great deal - full stop…

At least not when they are going to go around bricking functionality on old computers…

 

[mreg376]

But it's a decent deal. It lets you use Office 2021 forever, and on a older Mac that's also finished with support, but that you still want/need to use, current updates don't add much value anyway.

 

[BoboJay]

Mac OS 26.5.2 and Office 16.78.3 Retail license and all is still working as expected on Macbook Pro M5. Edit and Save documents with all components. So, confusing I guess as to why it doesn't work for others?

I would agree that this 2019 version was sold to me as a lifetime license so taking back any of it's functionality would be law suit territory.

 

[mreg376]

Lol! Lawsuit territory? And how many thousands of dollars are you willing to spend on a lawsuit over software that's now worth maybe $40? And if Microsoft did not sell it it you, you'd have to find and sue whoever did.

 

[SpotOnT]

But it's a decent deal. It lets you use Office 2021 forever, and on a older Mac that's also finished with support, but that you still want/need to use, current updates don't add much value anyway.

Not forever. Only until the Office 2021 certificates expire. Then it will go read-only just like Office 2019 this year.

 

[Pedersenko]

Go open source, ditch Microsoft altogether. They will never change