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Hi Grace2020 ,
I’m a longstanding MYOB’er who has worked with the business for 7 years, with two of those as Community Manager here (which is why you’ll see my name pop up a lot!).
At the time of the post you’ve found from a couple of years ago, while we were making some changes to MYOB Partner Program assets, no decision had been made regarding changes to confirmations.
We announced the end of life of AccountRight V19 in 2019 and allowed customers to continue to use it since then, with a view that they would move to more secure and modern programs as it suited them based on their needs and the evolving landscape. We feel that we have allowed enough time for this transition.
Please be assured that this wasn’t a decision we took lightly. The reality is that continuing to run old desktop software exposes customers to security and compliance risks we couldn’t ignore.
This appears disingenuous (and patronising) to me. The perpetual licence means the user owns the product and to disable the confirmations means that legitimate users can no longer use a product they own. The original purpose was to prevent piracy so why not just make the next confirmation a final one which would prevent any piracy anyway as a non-activated file would no longer be able to be confirmed? In respect to security, MYOB's track record for online product has had some security issues including sending the wrong pay information to the wrong employees so a Desktop version on a well defended system, including those that aren't connected to the internet such as in regional areas where I live, are no more vulnerable than an online system anyway. Besides which, we are not children who need to be "looked after" by a big corporation.
Regards
Liz