“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.”
Steve Jobs
And now Van Halen with SongSmith Some Gay Bar
Here’s a nice bug for ya. One of the users at work has a Word document, and when she uses “Save As…” to save the file to another location everything looks normal. But Word never saves the file! It’s non existant! This is only if the setting for compatibility with Office 2004 is set.
This isn’t the first time something like this happened, you also have the infamous “Let’s delete the Powerpoint file before saving and then crasch“-bug where users where left without a document after saving.
You see a lot of reviews of Office 2008, but it feels like no one has the guts to call the pig a pig…
So i’ve upgraded some of the users to Microsoft Office 2008 at work, just to see if we have less problems with it. But It seems like the geniuses at Microsoft still can’t program. The classic “you are out of memory” dialog pops up in Word, and it’s impossible to save to any volume. My attempt to move users to another program has been unsuccessful.
But I guess it keeps the support industry going…
i’ve spent this weekend building and installing a new web/mailserver. My decision to go with Zimbra doesn’t feel so risky, because Microsoft gave up on their idea of a Yahoo! takeover.
I’ve been switching over almost all computers at work to new black Macbooks. But there’s a lot of problems with Microsoft Office 2004 crashing all over the place. Powerpoint hangs, sometimes destroy files (this problem isn’t new, had the same problems with the old machines) and generally misbehaves. Word and excel sporadically crashes. Trying to explain to people who is used to Windows, that a mac is a very stable operating system doesn’t go to well. If a program misbehaves, it must be Apples fault. Very annoying. I don’t use any Microsoft products on my machine and generally don’t have any problems. I’ve tried to get people to switch over to Keynote, but that’s not easy. The worry that they will not be able to share documents with Powerpoint users is the main reason. But also the effort of learning a new program.
It’s amazing how little discussion there is about problems with the Office suite on macs, and not knowing if Microsoft is going to to something about it eventually.