1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software

Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by bena on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:13AM (#36878057)

Support for Office 2003 ended in 2014. Close to a decade ago. No maintenance, no patches, no service packs, nothing. No energy expended working on that codebase.

Office 2016 is going EOL in two years.

That's from Microsoft themselves. They do not hide these facts or make it hard to find.

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by Lacerda69 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:21AM (#36878195)

And?

I find it mindboggling that a simple program like text processors have to be continually updated for decades. Just program it right once for god sakes.

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by adamc on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:34AM (#36878396)

You vastly underestimate the complexity involved. Also, new attacks get discovered that were not even dreamed 20 years ago. There is no "just get it right" when right is measured by what we know, and that keeps changing.

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by nemo on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @11:33AM (#36879440)

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Re:1Sub.dev – A world where people pay for software by j45 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:55AM (#36878734)

Unlike recent versions of Office, old ones didn't call home, and Microsoft doesn't really have an idea of how many copies of their software are still in use in some cases.

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