MS Office
- Thread starter Insidious Von
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Not sure if this is license related, but I think any modern app needs to contact a remote server to check for your license once in a while. MS Office used to require you to be online at least once a month, and if your license had expired the app would turn into a read-only mode. It probably depends what version (commercial vs. consumer / mobile vs. desktop / Web app vs. device app) you are using. I guess free versions like OpenOffice can be less painful when it comes to licensing.
Is this a licensing question? If you have Office 365, then it has to check in every so often to re-validate that your subscription is active. If you're using Office Pro Plus, then the license is perpetual and it doesn't need to check it.
I'm not a big fan of Office, but if you're using MacOS, you should be able to use Apple's Pages, Numbers and Keynote for "free", i.e. included with the Apple tax.
AS I peck I am on an old win 7.1 laptop left over from the office with network licenses
It nags to validate Windows o/s, but when you choose to go online, it cannot be updated without full w10.
So I live with the back black ground that no license forces, and the occasional nag note in the lower tray.
Another laptop died so that brought this one back to service. Ported in a SSD and it surfs just fine.
When I had reason to fire up MSOffice it is the 2010 version. Said I had 30 days to validate. I am past that now. Top of the app screen shows red, but so far the applications seem to be working just fine as far as manipulating data.
So this might be a work around to avoid the software as service model that expects you to pay all the time, whereas you once bought it one off.
It nags to validate Windows o/s, but when you choose to go online, it cannot be updated without full w10.
So I live with the back black ground that no license forces, and the occasional nag note in the lower tray.
Another laptop died so that brought this one back to service. Ported in a SSD and it surfs just fine.
When I had reason to fire up MSOffice it is the 2010 version. Said I had 30 days to validate. I am past that now. Top of the app screen shows red, but so far the applications seem to be working just fine as far as manipulating data.
So this might be a work around to avoid the software as service model that expects you to pay all the time, whereas you once bought it one off.
