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Licensing and subscriptions
Perpetual, until it is a subscription.
A licence that was bought once becomes a renewal, a plan is renamed into a more expensive one, seat counts true up in a direction that is never down, and the terms that decide it are a document nobody signed a version of. Cancelling is a phone call.
Meanwhile, elsewhere on Microsoft Sucks
Filed under other categories, by people it happened to.
Account lockout2026-08-07
Locked out of the account your computer signs in with
When the login for your email is also the login for your laptop, your Office licence and your encrypted drive, one account decision reaches into the machine sitting in front of you. Here is what to do — and what to set up now so it cannot.
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