“Since OS X El Capitan was released to the public last week, Microsoft Office users have noticed some serious bugs when attempting to use the software,” Juli Clover reports for MacRumors. “MacRumors has received multiple emails from people having issues with Office 2016, and there are several threads about the problem on our forums.”
“Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint are crashing for many Microsoft users who have installed Office 2016, and Office 2011 users are also noticing problems with Outlook,” Clover reports. “Microsoft is aware of the problems with its software and has been responding to customer complaints.”
Clover reports, “A Microsoft spokesperson has told MacRumors that a fix is in the works. ‘We know that some users of Office 2016 for Mac are experiencing issues as a result of upgrading to Mac OS X 10.11 El Capitan. We are actively working with Apple towards resolution.'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Beleaguered Microsoft. Where incompetence runs rampant.
Even beleaguered Microsoft’s Office crash reporters crash despite their having access to OS X El Capitan developer, and even public, betas for months.
SEE ALSO:
Microsoft’s Office 2016 crashes like a banshee on Apple’s OS X El Capitan – October 2, 2015
Microsoft’s Office 2016 for Mac is wildly unstable on OS X El Capitan – September 30, 2015
Perhaps MS needs a GoFundMe site to help them complete this monumental task.
Und to think you’re only off by 3 little letters!
Now all we need is Adobe and Extensis and all the rest of the publishers who couldn’t get their fixes together on time… Grrrrr.
I still don’t understand why Microsoft doesn’t get out of the software business entirely and go into something else like micro brewery or similar. The worst they could do there is poison a few hipsters which is infinitely preferable to the suffering and misery they bestow daily on millions of computer users worldwide.
Microsoft in the craft beer business–now that’s hilarious. I can just imagine their beer selection:
Heave My Hefewisen
Panther Piss Porter
Spaghetti Code Stout
Ignorant IPA
Abysmal Amber
Error Prone ESB
Of course, Microsoft is already in the beer business. Their name is Budweiser.
You forgot Blue-Screen Belgian and Snotty Steam Ale.
We have enough unscrupulous people ruining our beer varieties thank you, we don’t need the experts getting involved.
I can see it now. They would have seven different versions of beer, and no one would know the difference.
Sounds like Carling
They can make prophylactic products! 😛
Take your time. Many of us don’t need your POS. I’ll use OpenOffice or LibreOffice instead.
Those products suck too. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote are awesome. They can save down to Office file types.
True. I failed to mention that. Thanks!
I’ll bet Microsoft’s problems are from a refusal to use Apple’s Swift and Xcode programming environments.
Wow, problems reported in ‘several threads’. O_o
Before we go too far knocking M$ here how about asking PC users how iTunes runs on a PC, or maybe ask them what they think of the iCloud version of Pages.
Let’s be honest, the fact that M$ had the stage in the month’s event at all is tangible proof that iWork is a freaking calamity, but it got me thinking. Maybe just maybe it’s deliberately bad so M$ will continue to support the Mac. Maybe just maybe Aperture was left to wither for the same reason (Adobe) and so on.
What iTunes on Windows and iCloud on Windows have in common is that they’re both on Windows. There’s the real issue. Windows is crap.
Good point.
But both suck on Mac too…..
No. They don’t. Both have always worked very well for me. If they don’t for you, then call AppleCare. Get them fixed, and stop whining here.
Yes you might criticise the user experience of iTunes and yes its bloated but then so is Office to the point that for anyone who only uses it occasionally, even though for over 20 years, it is almost impossible to fathom unlike Apples equivalents. But the point is that iTunes at least for me never crashes and it syncs fine for me too whereas I can hardly remember a version of Word that hasn’t crashed on a regular basis the latest for me being obscurely when in some docs I dare to copy from it to paste into a real DTP program rather than the suedo one that MS tries to convince the gullible it is.
Microsoft had access to El Cap betas. They themselves (as well as every Office Beta tester and El Cap user) had to know this by the time the first beta arrived.
How could they not fix their software?
Because they’re assholes.
The longer they take to fix these problems, the more people will realize there are alternatives.
From the response reported above, it sounds like Microsoft is trying to place the blame on Apple.
Back when Apple introduced multiple desktops, the current Office version did not play well with it (if you switched desktops, parts of Office would switch with you when you didn’t want to, and sometimes parts didn’t switch when you wanted). There were multiple updates of Office and Mac OS X without a fix for it, when I checked out MS service pages. On there, they wrote they are aware of the bug, but claimed they couldn’t fix it due to the way Mac OS X works. (Meanwhile, every other software worked.)
Folks, if you develop for a different platform, you have to follow the rules of that platform. You can’t blame the platform for your shortcomings.