Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac Will Soon Stop Letting You Edit Documents

A great reminder to use open standards for works you want to last longer than potato salad.

Seven years. I have documents several times older than that, and LibreOffice never mugs me.

I still use office 2003 on Windows

It launches in half a second on any modern machine and does the important stuff even in 2026

Why did they really do this?