It’s for my mother, who so far cannot stand LibreOffice.

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While I personally love LibreOffice, I get why your mom might not. It’s super easy:

  1. Download and install Office
  2. run irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex in Powershell and follow the instructions
  3. Profit!

What doesn’t she like about LibreOffice, out of curiosity? It’s easy to make the layout like Office (View > User Interface > Tabbed) if that’s her problem - I felt the exact same way, but the second I found out I could do that, I never went back.

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What’s this do? Been linux only for like 12 years and don’t keep up with office

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Massgrave is a tool that can create legit (oem) keys for windows and office out of thin air*

  • it’s not literally creating them from nothing, it’s using a system Ms themselves run to get working keys. Evidently they don’t have a huge problem with it.
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Turns out the powershell step is enough to get 97% of users to shell out cash.

And also, the biggest source of revenue is institutions who either will pay for the enterprise license, or can be sued for a good payday if they try to pirate.

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Done this a while ago for my brother who needed Office for work but isn’t as tech minded as I am. It’s honestly a fantastic tool, kudos to the creator!

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Man everyone I work with uses PDF and I have to do some janky shit to fill it out and sign it. Not that I would want docx either…

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I never knew about this. How did you find out about this method?

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I’m terminally online

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Yeah please teach me how you found it so I can be as resourceful as you. I’m not really interested in your self deprecation. Thank you.

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irm https://massgrave.dev/get | iex

Is there anything like this for MacOS 15?

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Download office from massgrave.dev and activate with the power shell activator. Permanent activation as easy as it gets.

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massgrave.dev

This appears to have worked flawlessly

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There was an article that caught Microsoft’s own IT support use this script to activate a customer’s computer so I guess Microsoft approves of it.

Edit: sauce

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yea can barely call it ‘effort’ more like accidentally tripped, pressed enter and now office 365 is installed ;D

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You could tell your mom the real price of MS office. She might suddenly stand LibreOffice just fine.

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i’m always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always “whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??”

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Screw word. I’m studying Software Development, but I have to write all these management reports for various classes. I’m just writing them in LaTeX now, so it feels like I’m coding while I’m writing a paper. Implement some new fancy features every time that I than have to debug like I do with code.

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Hosting pirate scripts for a Microsoft product on another Microsoft owned website is… interesting.

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There are even reported cases where Microsoft support used that tool to activate Windows Licenses when there are problems with the License of a customer.

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Is there any tool like this for macOS?

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Meanwhile I quietly switched Ms office with libreoffice on my dads PC and he didn’t even notice.

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