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I did a guide several months ago to make Microsoft Office installation as easy as possible. I have recently modified it to tell people to use the Ohook activation method and also updated the GitHub Gist mirror.

Happy pirating and I hope this guide can help anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i saw that, its awesome. works very well. shame that hwid is gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hwid was ever available for office? I thought it always needed a reactivation every 6 months

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah I misunderstood

What a pity, it was convenient

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Right on! Thanks for sharing this!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

oo is this better than the one you have to do every 3 months via powershell?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yes. Although the previous method didn't really need manual intervention, so as long as you go online at least once every few months it gets automatically renewed.

But this method activates Office permanently with no need for internet connection, so you can run away from civilization to an unmapped forest with your laptop, and Office remains activated even if you stay there forever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What is the actual advantage of Microsoft office in contrast to libre office or open office?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

it's prevalent everywhere

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Microsoft bribing ISO to make their crappy standard docx the norm then implementing the docx standard differently in word than in the official docs they made so that FOSS alternatives don’t work as well IIRC.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Step one download open office

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Step two, discover that people don't move to free Office alternatives for a reason

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

People do though they just aren’t arrogant about it.