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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...
Hi James
I get where you are coming from and the feelings around it. Some other products do that which makes me feel similar to you!
My suggestion would be to go with Office 2016 rather than the Office 365 cloud version as you did with Office 2010. That would mean the software is yours for as long as you want to use (or until you upgrade) it whereas Office 365 will evolve over time giving you the feature updates as part of your subscription.
If anyone is interested in the difference, some good articles are floating around on Office 2016 vs Office 365 pros and cons:
Hope that helps!
Cheers & best wishes
Damien
I don't have Office 365 and I'm still getting this message! I bought the programs outright.
Are other folks who bought the programs having this issue?
Very annoying that there was no advance warning from Microsoft about this. It's causing a lot of disturbance for people who don't just click any old box that pops up on their screen.
Where are you Microsoft??
Note -- I am encountering the problem in Office 2016, legitimate copy...
