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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...
We are escalating this - Sorry that I haven't responded, but Eric is in my team and we're both working to get someone from Microsoft to respond officially.
hi, I noticed that the popup license agreement text says 'last updated September 2017'.
And, the 'fine print' popup displayed when launching Visio Pro 2016 only references Visio, and not the entire suite of Office apps.
Apparently, similar scenarios have occurred in the past; this is just one example that showed up in search results with a last edited date in 2018: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/884202/you-must-accept-the-office-end-user-license-agreement-every-time-that
And, I only noticed the popup late yesterday.
I'm also being a bit cautious, though that might change shortly, as I use Office daily, and alternatives won't meet my req'ts.