Ever since I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2016 on my Mac, I have been experiencing this recurring bug. Word 2016 works OK for many days. (I say “OK” and not “great” because Word never works great, even at the best of times.) Then all of a sudden, for no apparent reason, it becomes unable to open […]
For years, I have been complaining about the I-beam cursor disappearing in Microsoft Word during text navigation: “Word 2004: New bug with blinking I-beam cursor” (June 19, 2004) “Word 2004: More on disappearing I-beam cursor” (June 28, 2004) “Word 2008: The case of the disappearing cursor” (July 13, 2009) “Word 2011: Disappearing cursor” (March 7, […]
While I have a lot of respect for Brent Simmons as the developer behind NetNewsWire (although he sold it several years ago, and things have ground down to an ominous standstill since), I am afraid his latest column for Macworld is directly in line with everything that has ever been written in Macworld about Microsoft […]
I don’t know about other Mac users, but when I go to the Microsoft web pages for Office for Mac, I get headings that look like this: And it does not get any better when I make things bigger: Or even bigger: For the record, this is in Safari, but it looks just as bad […]
As Betalogue readers know, I have been writing about Microsoft’s products for the Mac and especially about Microsoft Word for many years now. And generally speaking I have had nothing but bad things to say about the software: it’s slow, it’s full of bugs, it’s unreliable, and it’s a pain to use. One of the […]
When you have a fairly long document in Pages in which the text formatting is done using a variety of paragraph and character styles, and you do “Select All” to select the entire contents of the document, here’s what the styles drawer looks like: When you open the exact same document in Word 2008, with […]
Microsoft have changed their minds about Visual Basic for Applications and will bring it back in the next version. But it’ll take much more than that to restore the faith of Mac users in Microsoft products.
At Microsoft, Mac users are and always will be second-class customers.
Office 2008 already fails at the first hurdle: product registration.
It’s not even worth trying to understand how Microsoft Word ends up exhibiting such aberrant behaviours.
Finally some progress on the Office installation front, but I doubt that bilingual Canadian users will enjoy similar relief.
Whenever you get excited about advancements in software design, you can be sure that Microsoft will bring you back down to earth.
Microsoft has no shame.
Mac customers get a Windows-only license key. Nice touch.
Apparently, Microsoft engineers don’t know the difference between page width and window width.