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MICROSOFT CONVERTS OFFICE 2019/2021 MAC TO READ-ONLY IN 2026

Microsoft will degrade functionality of perpetually-licensed Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac, converting them to view-only mode in 2026. Users who own these offline products outright will lose editing capabilities despite having permanent licenses.

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Microsoft degrades functionality of perpetually-licensed offline products

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Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux

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Microsoft trained its MAI models on unlicensed web data despite promising "enterprise grade, clean and commercially licensed data"

Microsoft sells its LLM training approach as different from other AI companies. It isn't. The company trained its new MA…

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Satya Nadella publicly torches a VP's plan to make Microsoft's AI agent deliberately addictive

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has sharply criticized an internal memo proposing to make users "addicted" to the company's…

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