http://www.businessinsider.com/what-happens-when-office-365-expires-2014-3

This Is What Happens To Your Files When You Stop Paying For A Microsoft Office Subscription

"Microsoft wants to change how we buy Microsoft Office software. Instead of paying for the software once, Microsoft wants us to be paying for it monthly or annually.

Microsoft offers a variety of subscriptions for the latest version called Office 365.  This isn't cloud software. It still installs on your PC or Mac and the files will also be stored on your PC (though you can set it up to save to the cloud, too).

But the question is: what happens to your files if you decide to stop paying the subscription?

Microsoft does not delete them. It doesn't delete the Office software from your PC either. You can open them and look at them but you can't edit them.

Our one-year subscription to Office 365 recently came due and we did not renew it. Sure enough, the software deactivated itself.

This is what happened when we tried to use it after it expired.

1. When we clicked on an Office document, the file didn't immediately open. Instead, we got this screen. We clicked on the bottom to view the file for free.




2. The file opened, but none of the editing buttons worked. They were all "gray" indicating they were turned off. We were still able to copy and paste from the document into another file, using keyboard shortcuts.




3. Since the software is still installed, you can click on the icon. The app won't open. It will just load in the launch bar/dock.




4. With the app in the bar, you can right click and will give you the option to view a file.




At any time, we can renew our subscription, Microsoft says, and the apps will update to their latest versions and become functional again."


So, this is your future unless you choose to bleed some (either monthly or yearly) into the Microsoft blood bowl.  

Please remember that you were told way back when (now, by me) when the time comes around and it is your turn in the barrel ..... you were warned.

I made the mistake? of getting win10...Mrs at work today,it's raining.can't do anything outside...I know..I'll watch a movie a mate gave me...oh nup...keep getting errors on one built in player and the windows media player gives me sound but no picture,and can't find a clear answer into fixing it...thinking very seriously about booting 10 and going back to 7..oh...and it booted my wifi after a week of connecting  straight away..have to use a usb dongle for wifi...gawd sake

my first laptop with windows 7 crashed and burned...managed to download windows 7 from a site...had to extract it..put it onto usb stick then put on to dvd <---was a few years ago so can't remember why it had to be done like that...so thankfully I can do a complete install  

A bit like OF  has been saying, I talked with a computer literate fourteen or fifteen year old today. He says WIN 10's ok but full of bugs.

And as you hassle along ongoing with Microsoft and Windows 10, please understand why I don't want to go play with you in that particular lose-lose-pay-lose pay again lose again (and again and again) MS aggravation game .....

I am too old and I want to go do this for free instead of being pissed off and frustrated all the time.






.... Mint does everything I have ever needed to do, and it did it very nicely with very minimal hassle.
  And it did it for free.     (all apps, programs & softwares are totally free too)

Old-Rider, you can get abruptly shut down in Europe right now for EULA violations if you are hashmarked as a software pirate due to MS checking out your game hashmarks for you .....  and since your old license for Win 7/8.1 is invalid and gone now you get to pay MS for a new license to get it back going again.

anebv8 is now going to try to use his old DVD to reinstall Win 7 -- let's see how far he gets.

I believe what was said was that you would be gently coerced at the Win 10 to Win Permanent change over to "invest" in a full software package that included MS's cradle to grave taking care of you, OS, Office, the entire enchilada.  

Examples of the current methodology if you don't renew your Office were shown (factual).

MS has even published a rubric for how they intend to "leverage you over" into a subscription basis (and they must do this as they need a money flow to stay in business).

Judge the future by what is happening now to get everybody off Win 7 and on to Win 10.    Extend that a bit to forsee what MS will do to get you off Win 10 and on to Windows Permanent.

Heck, we had a guy here on the list who got "force moved" willy-nilly from Win 8 to Win 8.1 against his stated will --- hey, that was YOU wasn't it?

Here's the difference, you like and trust Microsoft now and feel like they are getting unfairly painted with the Darth Vader brush right now.

Fact is, they breathe funny and dress funny and have done so fairly consistently for over 20 years now .....

      ..... and now they are going about building yet another "kinder/gentler" Death Star ......
   

Yer gettin' close to being tin hat with your supposed Microsoft computer take over tactics.

Microsoft forced 8.1 because of security issues and driver instabilities..... it was a fix. Yes I complained about it..... did I see what the issues were? no... but I went with what the developers decided, and low and behold my system never went down.

Same with my new version of windows....
I have had 3 issues....

My function F3/F4 brighten and darken my display, is it fixed yet? no, will it be, I have no idea, does it stop my system from working? no...

My security camera's will not update and the program will not run using the new "Edge" browser. D-Link does not support Edge and has not updated the drivers at this time (I guess they are waiting for the tide to go back out), however, they have shown that windows IE11 browser is still loaded in windows 10 and can be used to operate the camera software.... my security system is online and working. When D-Link gets off their butt and updates their drivers, I will be happier, microsoft's responsibility is not to write software for D-Link, D-Link must make its camera's work with Edge... or not....  

The final thing...
When I boot up, it takes all of 7 seconds for the system to load to my log-on page. Then when I log-in, it takes about 2-3 minutes for the back round update checks to figure out if I need updating (uses about 90 percent of the hard drive), after those 2-3 minutes, if a download is needed, it works in the back round and does not notify me (I unchecked that box, I don't want to know). However, my new "Cool Sense" video card driver will max my airflow if the cpu heats up, and it slows the system almost to a standstill. I have emailed the video card company, was told they are "working on a solution".

None of these things are shutting down my computer and NOT letting me use it.

EULA.... that's a companies right, if you use their software, DO NOT try to edit the code.

And I have had a 365 Office subscription, and can load it up and view and print old documents and even documents I download, but I cannot edit them, because I LET MY SUBSCRIPTION LAPSE..... I agreed to pay to use the software, and did not pay to continue using it....
That's kinda like your cell phone service, if you agree to pay for the service and then DON'T pay any longer, do you think your are going to have service?
Actually I kind of like the way they are going to do it, because I don't always need to use office, and if I do, I just log on and pay for a year (or quarter, however they are going to work it).
They will NOT shut down my windows 10 computer if I don't pay my subscription for Office, I just won't be able to use my Office program.

Microsoft has its little sneaky spy bot software that catches "illegal" programs.
The illegal part is the folks that don't want to pay Microsoft to use their "registry certificate" fee's. Microsoft wants to be sure a company doesn't install some kind of "kill the system" or "spy on Microsoft" Trojan in the drivers that company loads up.
The folks making the big stinks, are those companies that probably don't want to pay for the certificate, or are planning to load up some spy crud into your system....

Anyway...... this is becoming a bash/defend post.....

So if my system crashes because Microsoft wants my money...... i'll come back and post again.....

But until then, i'll just keep using my windows 10.

P.S. The windows registries I was talking about reloading.... are from different computers, they are registered under my name, just because i'm using one version of windows 10 on this laptop does not mean I cannot use my other 6 registered copies.

old_rider wrote on 08/18/15 at 04:23:27:


Old-Rider is getting a little defensive because I am having too much fun at Microsoft's expense.  

May I point out that he points out 6-8 ongoing conflicts in his own installation where Microsoft has actively broken known good operating software and drivers and such like due to Microsoft's own carelessness with their new OS.

And it's my thought that since Microsoft broke it Microsoft should fix it .....

Mean,    aren't I  ???