A lot of commenters seem confused about this: you still have to validate Office to get it to work, or pirate it to circumvent the check. The change is that Mic

A lot of commenters seem confused about this: you still have to validate Office to get it to work, or pirate it to circumvent the check. The change is that Microsoft will let you download Office add-ons without verifying that said validation occurred, so pirate versions can now access the downloads.