Posts by rohnski

Securing Office 365? There's always more you can do

... says a lot for attactiveness of cloud-based ... pfffftt!

You start off with a very provocative statement

(snip>Wherever you look there's yet another SME or enterprise migrating to Office 365. This says a lot for the attractiveness of cloud-based office suites... </snip)

Sorry, all it says is that MS marketing is good at their job. And that MS has made 1-time payment licenses, "Office 2016 ...", effectively unusable for most businesses, especially big business!

What happens when you try to install Office 2016? The VERY first thing it does, BEFORE loading any software, is ask for the email account you will be using. Well, that may be fine for a home user, but totally impractical in a business environment. It makes preloading Office 2016 on computers very manpower intensive, because you have to keep separate records of the product key AND email address used for the installation. You can't even use a generic, shared admin email because there is a limit on the number of licenses you can associate with a single email. This makes it very difficult for IT departments and consultants to preload software on a computer before it is put on the user desktop.

On the other hand, MS has created the Admin "portal" that makes managing 365 licenses a relatively trivial effort. You just assign a license to an email account. Bing, when the user tries to use it, it is installed via CTR "in the background", so there may be a delay of a minute or two the first time they use the application. No need for a tech to install the software or to load a predefined "system image" on the computer.

My Microsoft Office 365 woes: Constant crashes, malware macros – and settings from Hell

There is a fix for visio problem

I haven't read all of the comments, so I don't know if anyone else has posted this.

MS has a "free upgrade" offer for users of Visio and Project 2013. It originally ended in June, but has been extended to the end of Sept.

Special offer for customers with Office 2016 and Office 2013 standalone applications - Free Upgrade - Visio / Project – to Sept 30 2016

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Special-offer-for-customers-with-Office-2016-and-Office-2013-standalone-applications-c32e3cad-e935-4163-a44f-50d896e10bbc

https://support.office.com/en-us/article/-We-need-to-remove-some-older-apps-error-a225347f-e102-4ea6-9796-5d1ac5220c3b

It is unfortunate that MS has been so user hostile in the release of 2016. There is no technological reason why 2016 cannot run alongside earlier versions. Actually, the "click to run" (or not run) virtual computer environment is designed to isolate the installation from other programs on the computer. Office 2013 even advertised users could test 2013 OUTLOOK alongside earlier versions! The either or choice in the 2016 installer is just that, code in the installer, added in a ham handed attempt to "encourage" people to switch to 2016.

These big-name laptops are infested with security bugs – study

Don't keep the problems secret!

I just bought a new Asus.

So don't just say there is buggy crappware installed, either give us the program names for each laptop or give us a link to an article that does name them. I really want to know if I can uninstall this crapware or is it "required" by the builder?