The issue goes back further than that, however, with complaints first appearing July 10, just one day after Microsoft launched the production build of Office for Mac 2016 and Apple delivered its first public beta of El Capitan. The bulk of those reporting problems with Office for Mac 2016 began seeing the applications crash last week after they upgraded to OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan. 'It would have been a simple correspondence: 'Hey, we see you use our new Office 2016 on Mac, there's a big OS X update coming, give us a bit of time until you download it.' No harm, no foul.'

'How is it remotely feasible that neither Microsoft (mostly at blame) or Apple (ignorance is not great customer service) had any proactive communication to NOT DOWNLOAD EL CAPITAN?' asked a commenter labeled 'cxr341' on Tuesday.

Windows and Outlook are the only remnants of Microsoft JUNK that I'm left with.'īut some expanded their exasperation to include Apple. 'Now you know why I switched to all Mac products.

'Light a fire under somebody's a_ to get a fix out, or at least a work-around,' urged 'MS Patsy' in a Monday reply to a Microsoft program manager who had posted on the thread last week.

As of late Wednesday, that thread had been viewed more than 39,000 times and contained nearly 400 messages, both very high numbers for the Office for Mac support forums.

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