Brutal: Office 2016 Preview

[callthatgirl]

Holy good gravy....anyone else download this? Install took hours

Then it beat up my windows, DLL errors everywhere
Then I hobbled it together
Got it work somewhat
Then I had more crashes, more errors and then finally today was the last day I could stomach this junk.

Had to uninstall it, reinstall my Office 2013. Now it appears all my DLL issues are gone too, thank god!!!

 

[glennd]

Holy good gravy

I have never heard that expression before

 

[callthatgirl]

Replacement for the profanity, used by vintage lifestylists to make fun of the old censorship laws. Also used: gee, golly, gosh, etc.
Good Gravy! Did you see that? Is that even legal in this state?

I added "Holy" because it's serious...

 

[nlinecomputers]

Replacement for the profanity, used by vintage lifestylists to make fun of the old censorship laws.

Well f--- that.

 

[callthatgirl]

F that is right, that preview was a piece of crapola. Worse part? They kept Outlook blue. I think the blue irritated me more than anything. Not sure why MS thought a blue Word, Outlook, Sharepoint, Skype and their Outlook.com and their admin control panel all needed to be freaking blue.

 

[FremontPC]

Not sure why MS thought a blue Word, Outlook, Sharepoint, Skype and their Outlook.com and their admin control panel all needed to be freaking blue.

Keeps people calmer while they wait in the phone queues.

 

[allstarit]

yeah im on Office 365 and updated to the Preview to have a look see and it also took awhile.
Since updating to Windows 10 as well it seems a bit better but still bit buggy for my liking.
Also killed my One Drive for Business when i first installed it because it wasnt compatible with the version of Office. Havent tried it since though.

One of my old Bosses said the same thing about the colour blue and how it was Intellectual and kept people calm.
Green was also similar to blue
He never liked anything Red because it gave a sense of anger or danger.

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Also killed my One Drive for Business when i first installed it because it wasnt compatible with the version of Office. Havent tried it since though.
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That's why I'm still holding off...I use OneDrive on all my rigs.

Read that Microsoft will released a unified OneDrive...no more "home" and "business" versions but there will be one, should be by the time of official release of O'16.

 

[TAPtech]

That's why I'm still holding off...I use OneDrive on all my rigs.

Read that Microsoft will released a unified OneDrive...no more "home" and "business" versions but there will be one, should be by the time of official release of O'16.

YEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!

 

[oldtech]

Not sure why MS thought a blue Word, Outlook, Sharepoint, Skype and their Outlook.com and their admin control panel all needed to be freaking blue.

Pretty sure it's so it doesn't clash with the BSOD

 

[mrapoc]

Mine installed and worked fine

Apart from sometimes Outlook did a weird thing where all panels were blank - hasn't done it for a while so I guess its been fixed *i hope*

 

[callthatgirl]

iTunes is red and it is danger!

I think Office 2016 is for Windows 10 only. I got many errors about operating system not compatible. Yeah...my first sign I did something really bad lol

 

[nlinecomputers]

I would doubt that. Microsoft has too many business clients that mix and match. They try to keep things working on the currently supported OSs.

 

[callthatgirl]

well, you didn't deal with the hellfire I did, never again. Not without a spare pc available anyway.

 

[nlinecomputers]

The hazards of beta. I only do that in a vm.

 

[glennd]

They try to keep things working

That's good to know.