If Word, Excel or Outlook suddenly says “Unlicensed Product”, or Office has vanished from your PC completely, Microsoft’s KB5002907 update is the likely cause. The update was meant only to fix stuck Microsoft 365 installations, but it deactivated or removed perpetual copies of Office 2016 and Office 2019 instead. Microsoft has now paused the rollout. […]
Microsoft has partly fixed their Excel copy paste bug in some versions of Office but left others broken or with an incomplete fix. Microsoft’s documentation is more than a little confusing but it seems most versions of Excel have been fixed. Microsoft 365 was never affected. Confused? Here is the full list so you can […]
Microsoft is set to permanently disable Publisher 365 for Microsoft 365 subscribers on October 1, 2026, not just end support, with a hard “kill switch” that will block opening or editing .pub files after that date. This aggressive move means the desktop publishing tool will stop functioning entirely for subscription users, a major shift from […]
Publisher 365 stops working on October 1, 2026, and that is just the first of eight October 2026 Office changes. Within days, Exchange Web Services starts shutting down in Exchange Online, Word’s Similarity Checker is deleted on October 3 and Teams live chat closes on October 5. Then on October 13, Office 2021 loses all […]
Microsoft is killing its Microsoft 365 companion apps, Calendar, People and Files, barely a year after it started forcing them onto Windows 11 business PCs. They stop working by December 16, 2026, but the deadline that matters is now: security fixes have already stopped, so every copy is running unpatched. Your files, meetings and contacts […]