Casually opening a Word document to do some adjustments, a number of popups appeared. Word is disabled until buying a M365 license. It's not that it doesn't get updated, editing is disabled. How on earth do they get away with this?
By having trillions of dollars, that's how. Even if they get hit with a lawsuit, it'll be some million dollar fine, which is chump change for them.
The best way to deal with this is to not use their products in the first place. And now that we've got OnlyOffice and ArtCraft, there's almost no reason to continue using the MS Office suite, unless you're a corporate customer.
They are the 900# gorilla, and the screams of the smallfolk have no effect on their bottom line.