Forum Discussion
Glenn Steinback
Jul 29, 2018Copper Contributor
Office 365 "The fine print" popup message - is it legitimate?
Greetings, I have been happily using Office 365 (mostly Word) for many years, and I have never had any problems with any of the products. This morning when I loaded Word I was confronted by a pop...
- Aug 03, 2018
AnnaChu
Jul 30, 2018Former Employee
Thanks Damien for flagging - you can always count on us being responsive to posts like this. To best do this, hover over the 'down arrow' (˅) icon in the top right hand of the suspicious message, and you can flag the content as inappropriate or spam. Our team will be right on it!
Susan Webeck
Aug 01, 2018Copper Contributor
Hello Anna - it would be nice if we could also count on you to be responsive to the original issue - is this pop-up actually from Microsoft? I think most of the people here are very unhappy with the way that Microsoft has handled this, but almost everyone would be happy to click on 'accept' and get back to work if we can get a confirmation that it is legitimate.
- James FriessAug 01, 2018Brass ContributorI was on a chat with Microsoft support, and he repeatedly refused to answer my question of whether this was a legitimate Microsoft popup. I asked 4 times and even resorted to all caps, but he simply would not answer.
- James FriessAug 01, 2018Brass Contributor
BTW I read the other day that Microsoft might be moving to a "Desktop as a Service" model. It might be a good time to start getting comfortable with Linux.