• Triumph@fedia.io
    6 hours

    That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen. People bought a license to use a product, with the reasonable expectation that said license would be both perpetual and unchanging.

    • BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      Yeah, Microsoft is gambling that the number of users who care enough to act are too small, or won’t bother, or won’t realise they can.

      This is how big corporations get away with this shit. It’s not “illegal” in the criminal sense, but it is a breach of contract between Microsoft and those affected; and they likely could win against Microsoft.

      The good news is the outrage over this is probably more damaging than any settlement or long drawn out legal case even would be. It’s at just the right time as Microsoft deals with major issues and unhappiness with Windows users over poor updates, crappy feature changes to Win 11 and of course force feeding of CoPilot down every users throat, while also decimating their own staff to save money for AI and polluting their own products codebases with shitty AI generated slop. Perfect storm has hit Microsoft, and they don’t even realise how bad it is yet.

      • binux@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        24 minutes

        It’s crazy how once these companies get big enough, they become a cancer that just slowly self-destructs. Everything that’s going wrong in their business can be blamed solely on them. Just all around gross incompetence in the most absurd, blatant way possible. I really hope that, in the near future, we see the main opinion of Microsoft finally coming around to understanding this redundant company’s pig-brained, slop-obsessed stupidity.

      • Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Apple users sue over everything just ask Apple, I mean they just sued and won over Apple Intelegence.

        • thejml@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          10 minutes

          As an Apple user, I laughed at this… the one thing we all want is NOT to have Gemini or AI on our phones. I mean, if we wanted Gemini, we could just use Google & Android.

    • hydrashok@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3 hours

      Yeah. I could see them deprecating O365 hooks and services or something, but the entire suite? That’s bullshit.

    • jestho@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4 hours

      If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing

    • satanmat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      This is the way.

      If they can just break something I’ve paid for… then it is fair for me to take it without paying

    • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 hours

      and not just for microslop products, but all megacorp products.

      what one of them does reflects on the rest of them. if they wanted to, they could have lobbied for fair regulation. they didn’t, or didn’t succeed.

    • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3 hours

      If it is, in fact, legal, it’s because there’s a weasel clause in the clickwrap that says, in effect, “We can change this agreement in any way at any time. Not you, just us.”

    • Jestzer@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Because it’s Microsoft and whether anybody likes it or not, they’ll do whatever they want and at best, lose a few pennies.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      Because legislation related to Stop Killing Games has not yet passed.

  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    6 hours

    How soon before they start doing this to Win10 installations?

  • IHeartBadCode@fedia.io
    6 hours

    I distinctly remember the conversations about Office’s phone home system and people specifically saying “this seems problematic” and Microsoft hand waving those concerns away.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      5 hours

      it’s not the ‘phoning home’ that’s doing this. they built-in a time bomb by way of an expiring digital certificate. one that won’t get updated or replaced because the software versions in question are ‘out of support’.

      • Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Well it kinda is because that certificate is needed for the phoning home. If it didn’t need to communicate at all it wouldn’t have needed an SSL certificate so there would have been nothing to expire.

  • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    I found that Pages and Numbers work just fine for me at home, and it comes included with my Mac. And if I’m truly desperate, Google Docs and Sheets are always a viable alternative.

    • Bloefz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Cool but if you handle complex documents with stuff like macros you’re straight out of luck. Even if you can get some compatibility you’re never going to be quite sure it will all work and look perfectly.

      This is how Microsoft keeps their position.

    • Zannsolo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2 hours

      Or if you’re not desperate open office/libre office forget the meta because I don’t fuck with docs outside of work these days

      • veee@lemmy.caEnglish
        2 hours

        True. I don’t spend as much time these days word processing as I used to, but I really should get around to downloading libre office.

  • reluctant_squidd@lemmy.caEnglish
    4 hours

    These articles go from panic bait to feel good news after you completely switch away from Microslop,