It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.
Mass grave 🤣🤣
Is there any tool like this for macOS?
Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is… interesting.
There are even reported cases where Microsoft support used that tool to activate Windows Licenses when there are problems with the License of a customer.
It might sound like a pretty obvious thing, but have you tried changing the tools into the “Tabbed ribbon” that office uses instead of the classic old 90s organization scheme in options ?
I have come to notice that when people who don’t really work with computers very well, in particular boomers, say that they can stand LibreOffice, they mean they don’t like the layout of the tools, because they can’t find anything they need. I suppose they just got used to where everything is with modern office.
Just change it and see if she will like it better. Usually solves it for the boomers i help. Nothing is holding LibreOffice back more than their default layout scheme. They really don’t know their target audience’s pain points AT ALL. Just goes to show why you need to study your users using the product without being explained anything.
I don’t get why their default is a layout that has been outdated for 24 years. Nostalgia or what? Only really old people who used computers in the 90s a lot will intuitively find it useful.
This really depends on what she’s using it for. If she’s going to use it for anything business related, she needs a legal copy. That includes her sitting down to write the next great American novel or Sookie Stackhouse series. If she’s just needs to open recipes someone else sends her, not a problem at all.
I’ve had success using a cracked Office 2013 installation. The older ones don’t have as sophisticated anti piracy measures and don’t unactivate themselves as often.
I eventually got my dad to use Libre office. There are several different ui layouts and one of the is really similar to ms office.
i came across a guide on rentry that said how to permanently activate office 365 downloading from official microsoft servers
don’t have the link
Onlyoffice is pretty usable, better than libreoffice. The company behind it is Russian, though, so better not use it if you deal with any kind of sensitive information in a western country (that includes stuff like business administration!).
You can also try the common activation scripts or manually configure vlmcsd. Or just use the free online stuff like Google Docs or Office Online.
Not an expert, but I think they’re actually Latvian.
The company is Latvian, but the Latvian company used to be owned by a Russian company. Right now, the company is owned by a British she’ll company, owned by a Singaporean holding. Fort a short while, the British company was owned by someone acting as a corporate advisor in Uzbekistan.
Legally speaking, they’re not Russian, but I find it hard to believe they’ve actually severed ties. I believe they changed their business structure to avoid EU sanctions. This could just be your basic corporate tax evasion as well, but i haven’t seen a tax evasion scheme like this in open source software before.
Very insightful, thanks. All this does seem very fishy at best. Best to stick with LibreOffice then.
How about a code from eBay for an older version usually around $5-$10 have never had an issue
This is a legit license, it’s just a pain to activate it by phone.
https://www.gamers-outlet.net/en/buy-office-2021-professional-plus-phone-activation
And this is probably the real value of this software nowadays
key resellers have office 2021 pro plus (the non subscription one) for $30.00ish (earlier versions are even cheaper) and that is what I recommend if you absolutely have to get office.
imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas
Considering the grey market is filled with dodgy keys, it’d be better to just pirate, especially when there are easy and safe ways to do it like with MAS
I’ve bought gray market keys for years without an issue. Also, good key sellers have money back guarantees
Good resellers do, but I think my point still stands - why risk any of that when Microsoft doesn’t get your money either way?
MAS/Massgrave works effectively, is open source, is well-documented, and literally free.
ignorr this coment I didn’t read the post properly
It’s really easy to do actually.
Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.
If you must have MS office, then I’d go with MAS/Massgrave like others have said.
It’s well documented, requires minimal setup (if going default route), and is much less risky than going into the grey market for keys or downloading cracks elsewhere.
Out of curiosity: what she doesn’t like?
I bought my license for like 4 or 5 usd after a life of sailing and using libreoffice, not on ebay but on one of those praised website that sells key for games and such
