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by csdvrx 1252 days ago
> From my experience, Microsoft wants you to move to a Microsoft 365 subscription

Yes, they want the money.

> So there is a clock ticking if you are using those versions of Office.

My solution is Office 2007 (for 32 bit) or 2010 (for 64 bit), either running on Wine or baremetal, and replacing Outlook.com by Gmail.com to which old versions of Office connect perfectly well thanks to Google Workspace Sync.

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How do you obtain a 2007 or 2010 copy?
A website that may or may not contain magnet links.
You'd think those magnets would go rusty in the bay...
$20 and ebay, same place and just little more if you want it NIB.
A certain site that has the words "The" "pirate", "bay" and org in its URL. It's where a friend of a friend that I know through a second cousin stumbled upon their frequently used copy of Office 2007 (and quite a few other things)...