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New to me MacBook Air 2017 had office installed - can I resurrect it??
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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1837250" data-attributes="member: 396914"><p>Ah, I pay monthly so I can cancel when I want and not have any remnant of any size. US%7/month is not a huge expense to have all of the Office products on our machines. </p><p></p><p>OK, that may be how it works technically, but I would not say that was a stand alone copy. It's what I paid for, a subscription that works until I cancel it. It doesn't have to be downloaded from some super server in the cloud, it's resident on my machine, but it does "phone home" to make sure I'm an authorized user. It even works without an Internet connection so it must, when it phones home, get the expiration date for my current rental period and will work until then. So I would not say that I got a license to Office 2019 at all. Nor would I say it gets bricked. It just ceases to execute when my subscription ends, which is totally reasonable and exactly what I signed up for it to do. It was never represented to me as a "stand alone" copy of the software. In fact, you can still pay a single license fee instead of the subscription if you want to go that way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1837250, member: 396914"] Ah, I pay monthly so I can cancel when I want and not have any remnant of any size. US%7/month is not a huge expense to have all of the Office products on our machines. OK, that may be how it works technically, but I would not say that was a stand alone copy. It's what I paid for, a subscription that works until I cancel it. It doesn't have to be downloaded from some super server in the cloud, it's resident on my machine, but it does "phone home" to make sure I'm an authorized user. It even works without an Internet connection so it must, when it phones home, get the expiration date for my current rental period and will work until then. So I would not say that I got a license to Office 2019 at all. Nor would I say it gets bricked. It just ceases to execute when my subscription ends, which is totally reasonable and exactly what I signed up for it to do. It was never represented to me as a "stand alone" copy of the software. In fact, you can still pay a single license fee instead of the subscription if you want to go that way. [/QUOTE]
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