I bought a subscription to MS Office 365. I had a perfectly good earlier version that was not a subscription. The MS Propaganda said (I\u2019ll have to paraphrase) that if you don\u2019t renew the subscription, the Office programs will continue to function but support and updates will terminate.<\/p>\n
OK, I can buy that.<\/p>\n
I am retired, so to save $100+ I let the Office 365 expire. I lost my \u201cOneDrive\u201d cloud storage which I expected. The Office programs (primarily MS Word and Excel) continued to function as promised.<\/p>\n
Later a harassing warning POP-UP<\/strong> appears on every system cold boot start-up, telling me Office can\u2019t log into OneDrive and to enter my log-in. I keep saying to the screen, \u201cNo kidding, it\u2019s intentional!\u201d Problem is I can find no way to stop the warning and of course the log in is no longer valid. I click it away and Office 365 programs run fine.<\/p>\n Now three months later and every time I start<\/em><\/strong> ANY Office 365 application (Word, Excel) I get another large pop-up WARNING! For me to renew my subscription to remove the warning<\/u><\/strong>. (Do you understand what I just said?)<\/p>\n I figure out that I can just click away the popup<\/u><\/strong> and then and only then, I can continue to use the Office 365 application. BUT>>><\/p>\n A yellow WARRNING! Banner<\/strong> then appears in the top ribbon of every application telling me the same thing. The application will work but the banner line must be clicked to make it go away.<\/p>\n I can find no way to stop (turn off) this marketing harassment for renewing the subscription.<\/p>\n Yes, the office suite continues to operate, but Microsoft is going to hound me unceasingly.<\/p>\n I have a very good (and free) alternatives to MS Office called LibreOffice<\/a> and FreeOffice<\/a>. I use them with Linux but there are versions for Windows.<\/p>\n I have a contract job where I use Excel with a client. So, to stay 100% compatible with the clients\u2019 system I have relented and renewed the MS Office 365. This work easily covers the renewal cost but my issue is the bad faith created by the Microsoft renewal harassment policy.<\/p>\n Microsoft was truthful. The programs keep working\u2026 if you don\u2019t mind constantly clicking away WARNINGS!<\/p>\n It\u2019s all about what they don\u2019t tell you\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I bought a subscription to MS Office 365. I had a perfectly good earlier version that was not a subscription. The MS Propaganda said (I\u2019ll have to paraphrase) that if you don\u2019t renew the subscription, the Office programs will continue to function but support and updates will terminate. OK, I can buy that. I am retired, so to save $100+ I let the Office 365 expire. I lost my \u201cOneDrive\u201d cloud storage which I expected....<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ramblindan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}