Re: Microsoft Forcing Windows Users Into LibreOffice

On Thu, 1/16/2025 4:40 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

If you’re stubborn about sticking to Windows 10, here’s another bit of
functionality Microsoft is going to take away from you: use of
Microsoft Office/365.
 
<https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/15/24344209/microsoft-365-office-apps-windows-10-end-of-support>
 
So what other choice do you have apart from going to an alternative
like LibreOffice? Or abandoning Windows altogether, and embracing the
greater options available with Linux?
 

Run a VM. Next.

Right now, I have a Win11 in a VMWare product, with "swtpm".
The Win11 doesn't have a license. And you don't put licenses
of the "normal" sort in a VM, because Microsoft tech support
won't help you with those. There may be some Enterprise SKU for
that.

But if you wanted to move your rental software, you could do it
that way.

I'm not sure you can do that with VirtualBox, as the passthru TPM
support (no "swtpm") did not work on my other machine. And I don't
really know how to debug that.

At the current time, you can *buy* the non-rental version of Office
and use that instead. The rental version is not the only version
(unlike an Adobe perhaps).

   Paul