Outlook 2016 crashes

I'm with you...I can't get work done!  I ran XP/Office Pro 2002 for 16 years, no prob.  Since I built my computer in Oct. 2016, I've spent well over 75 hours on the phone with techs who generally know far less than I do. ...

Thanks, y'all!

I can fully relate to this 75 hours (and more) trying to get problems fixed. We should file a mass-action suit to get some financial compensation back for all the time we've wasted on faulty products!

Some support is excellent, but most is not worthy of the job title. It's not their fault, they just do what they are trained to do. The problem is again with Microsoft for not spending the millions, or billions, to have better quality products and better trained (therefore expensive) technical support people who can think on their feet.

Speaking of the latter, one of my websites is hosted by a small-medium size west-coast USA hosting company who were in the news recently concerning their high regard for client privacy and not revealing unwarranted details to offials without due legal procedure. Anyway, their high standards spread across the small organisation. Every time I call or chat with support, on complex issues involving database configs and much more, their locally based people are outstanding, they really know their stuff, and they quickly resolve issues. They don't focus on one little area, they understand the inter-connections between different products and systems which means that issues are better understood and more quickly fixed.

How I wish we didn't have the narrow and silo approach at Microsoft, it's killing the company slowly; that's sad, I've used their products since the mid 1980's. Despite their higher revenues, I believe they will lose small and medium sized businesses over the next few years as they keep messing us around.

Come on MS, get these horrendous issues fixed in Office 365/16 and Windows 10, otherwise we'll be falling back to XP and Office 2003 running in a VM or similar, just to be able to work without interruption and with a good workflow, not interrupted by the newest stupid feature and putting everything else important behind another useless layer of candy. Why not just split Office into Business/Pro versions and another one for consumers, and admit that you got it wrong by trying to lump everything together. Or bring back Works! Although you'll need to rename it to "Sometimes Works" if the current crew of developers have anything to do with it!

I'm with you...I can't get work done!  I ran XP/Office Pro 2002 for 16 years, no prob.  Since I built my computer in Oct. 2016, I've spent well over 75 hours on the phone with techs who generally know far less than I do.  It was funny once when one tried to use DISM on my machine, but discovered that it doesn't work with the 'Creators Update' (what a seriously stoopid name!)

I'm seriously wondering if we MS victims were to stage simultaneous 'hippie-style,' sign-wielding protests in large cities across the world, would we garner enough embarrassing news coverage that MS would FINALLY quit screwing around trying to turn their products into giant identity theft machines?  (Why do they care so much about me?  I've offered to have them come sit next to my desk and just watch everything I do, real-time, real-life, but nay, they ignored me - like they do all of us.)

Let's use this space to discuss alternatives to Microsoft products!

I use Win 10 Pro, Access, Excel, Word and Outlook.  Does anyone have experience with alternatives?  This OS and the Suite are giant, bug-ridden PoS (I like how you put that!), and I've had it.  I can't afford to switch to Apple.  So, what about Ubuntu, Linux, etc. and Open Office?  Any others you can recommend?

Thanks, y'all!