Office 2019 for Mac

[WildWestDesigns]

Any Mac Office 2019 users?. If I recall, this was a perpetually licensed product.

Seeing some interesting things here.

 

[Texas_Signmaker]

not sure what the deal is? when you buy software at some point they stop making updates for it

 

[WildWestDesigns]

not sure what the deal is? when you buy software at some point they stop making updates for it

It has nothing to do with that.

The original EOL statement said that you original app would still work and not disappear from the system and that your files were ok. In the "updated" version (which they made it seem like it was the originally published version and NOT an updated version) states that only your files would still be opened by "any supported" Office product. Not the one that you got on the perpetual license. No mention that your app would still work or that it wouldn't disappear (if I'm not mistaken, older versions of some MS products have been removed via update channels (Skype for Business to Teams etc, so the delivery system is there for partial or all of this)) from the system in the "updated" version.

Yes, updates stop going has been accepted practice for a long time. This is about a perpetually licensed product no longer working. What was one benefit of a perpetually licensed product? The ability to still use it and not have to pay to upgrade to the next version as long as it would still install on the OS. That doesn't appear to be the case anymore.

 

[netsol]

they removed wordpad, for god f**king sakes as part of a windows update
talk about giving with one hand (giving what??) and taking away with the other
for decades wordpad was a free viewer. now you need to have licensed office installed or some 3rd party viewer

 

[WildWestDesigns]

they removed wordpad, for god f**king sakes as part of a windows update
talk about giving with one hand (giving what??) and taking away with the other
for decades wordpad was a free viewer. now you need to have licensed office installed or some 3rd party viewer

Bbbbbbut they gave use notepad with "AI" also.

Unless there is some funky settings going on, LibreOffice tends to do a good job. I rarely use an Office product of any kind, but LibreOffice is decent in a pinch. I had used WordPad for a lot of stuff though, I liked it over notepad (although that was my first source code editor for what little tinkering I did back in the 80s (used it more for web site stuff in the 90s)Wordpad grew on me late 90s-early aughts, left Windows when Win7 was new though).

 

[netsol]

you can still put wordpad back in
you copy the executable from a windows 10 or early version windows 11.
there is only one support file, needed (i forget what) but click on wordpad.exe and it will tell you what is missing

 

[WildWestDesigns]

you can still put wordpad back in
you copy the executable from a windows 10 or early version windows 11.
there is only one support file, needed (i forget what) but click on wordpad.exe and it will tell you what is missing

I wonder if they would have another update that would continue to scan for it and remove it again if found?

Man, I miss the programs that have most, if not everything bundled it. Ones that I write I try to do that, either link with musl for totally portable or only need system libraries. I have a very old embroidery program (last updated by the original dev in 2006) that is for Windows only (although WINE will somewhat run it, I haven't checked it lately to see if WINE has improved running it, been almost a decade on that). One binary, but it did have a chm file for help, but it wasn't required to run. He OSS'ed it in the end and their website was up for the longest time, but it's no longer around. It's still has it's usefulness, especially when I was teaching people. Ironically, talk about old free Windows programs, it's main picture source file is BMP, which was the master format for MsPaint if I recall (I think they were going to remove that at one time, but there was a big stink over it, so they kept it last I heard, deprecated and all, but I digress).