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relayerbob

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Reply to question everything (Original post)

Sat Jan 23, 2021, 01:29 PM

Jan 2021

They are discontinuing the at-home versions of those for Macs and are only going to allow the cloud versions. My wife had that happen already. If you are only now seeing them, you haven't been updating or used them very often. The cloud versions work well, if you are into cloud services. If not, your choices are to ignore the notes or get something else

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Is Microsoft inside my iMac? [View all] question everything Jan 2021 OP

Probably the MS Update daemon running in the background Zorro Jan 2021 #1

Auto-updates. relayerbob Jan 2021 #2

Thanks. This sucks. I don't like to have financial information up in the "ether" question everything Jan 2021 #3

Just google Microsoft Office replacements relayerbob Jan 2021 #6

You might want to try iWork Auggie Jan 2021 #4

Thanks, will look into this. Hope does not require Cloud.. question everything Jan 2021 #5

No cloud. The software lives on your computer. Auggie Jan 2021 #8

I suggest DO NOT UPGRADE. Tetrachloride Jan 2021 #7

Thanks. Have no intention on going to the cloud question everything Jan 2021 #9