Bing Recommends Piracy Tutorial When Searching For Office 2019 (zdnet.com)

aafrn writes: Microsoft is sending users who search for Office 2019 download links via its Bing search engine to a website that teaches them the basics about pirating the company's Office suite. This happens every time users search for the term "office 2019 download" on Bing. The result is a Bing search card (highlighted search results) that links to a piracy tutorial that teaches users how to install uTorrent, download a torrent file, and install an Office crack file. Fortunately, the torrent download links are down, but experts believe the link was used to spread malware.

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download LibreOffice running under Linux instead

[najajomo]

I don't know why this deserves a whole slashdot article and you didn't even provide links to the alternatives!

LibreOffice is a powerful office suite

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But why stick to office at all?

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are people sticking to office despite all the abuse?

I guess this is the same sort of question as why people insist on using windows when that doesn't work very well either, will randomly stop working as poorly as it did and just throw fits from updates, and insists on making you an ad-viewing beta-tester while at it.

Me, I use troff for writing letters, but there's plenty of clickibunti alternatives, free and paid, that people might try and even find better interoperability with other software at that. Because redmond isn't very compatible with itself, either. Sticking with them is, objectively speaking, a an expensive losing proposition.