Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan

An anonymous reader writes: Users of Microsoft Office on the Mac are reporting widespread instabilities and conflicts after upgrading to the latest version of the Apple desktop operating system, El Capitan. The first indications that El Capitan and Office 2016 were not working well together came in a now epic thread at Microsoft Community. Many users have surmised that new restrictions in file permissions in El Capitan caused the problems initially, though nearly all agree that Office's Outlook email client is the critical point of failure in the current round of application crashes and loss of functionality.

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Got Office 2016 on Yosemite

[cigarky]

Not having any problems. I like the new layout and appearance much better than 2011. Email is going out without a problem.

lesson learned

[xombo]

I've had so much trouble with Apple updates in the last couple years. I ended up stopping doing upgrades, completely. I'm still on Mavericks and iOS 7 and will remain here until these machines fall to pieces, at which point I'm just going to order something cheap on Alibaba and stick Linux on it. The whole point of buying these overpriced products is that they're supposed to "Just work." They just don't live up to the promise, anymore. Apple is looking more like Microsoft each day.

Re:Not just MS Office

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, it fucking well is a bad thing. Moving away from user-controlled general purpose computers is NOT an appropriate response to Grandma getting a virus.