Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion (2026) is a scheduled remote degradation of perpetually-licensed Microsoft Office software for macOS...
FWIW I just spent a couple of months testing a bunch of Office suites as a replacement for MS Office, and I settled on SoftMaker. The “Home” subscription (version without AI and reference features) is CAD $40/year (there’s also a free version with a few features removed) and it can do everything that MS Office can do, some things (like commenting in Word docs) it does better.
FWIW I just spent a couple of months testing a bunch of Office suites as a replacement for MS Office, and I settled on SoftMaker. The “Home” subscription (version without AI and reference features) is CAD $40/year (there’s also a free version with a few features removed) and it can do everything that MS Office can do, some things (like commenting in Word docs) it does better.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I’m expecting Euro-Office will be on par within a year, and allow me to self-host (and it’s all OSS).
Yeah, I’m going to watch Euro-Office, too, and in a year when it’s time to renew my SoftMaker subscription I’ll decide which to go with.