Can someone help me help Microsoft understand what's going on?
Email me at susan-at-msmvps.com (change the -at- to @) so we can get official support cases opened? Forum postings won't work here. We need Microsoft to see log files.
I don't understand how we can make it any clearer. Just a brief looking over of this forum tells you everything that we know about the problem. The symptoms are weird and different for everyone. The one thing in common is that it started after the updates.
If you explain what I can do to make it clearer for Microsoft I will do it to help out. I just do not see what else there is to say. And nobody in the world can convince me that they are in the complete dark and do not know about this with as many people that
are being affected as there is at this time. They just haven't figured out how to fix it or maybe even do not know yet how they broke it. But like I said, I am happy to help if you just let me know what you need from me. But in reality, do you think that this
monolithic company does not know what happened yesterday? One thing they need to do is go back to making it possible to have more control over updates and being able to see what updates are available, what ones you want to apply, and what ones have been applied.
Just like we could do back before 2013 and the Click To Run feature. Sometimes simplifying things too much is a bad thing, especially when it takes away the ability to track down a problem and even more so when it comes to something that they will need input
from the customer for in order to fix it. I understand the concept. It would be great if all we ever did was turn on our computer and everything was streamed as we wanted it, and any problem was detected by and fixed by the manufacturer. But this concept does
not work too well when it is software and you have so many different environments (hardware and software, network, user skills, etc.) that it is being used in. You just cannot provide the latest answers when you have so many different situations the problem
could be found in. Until they invent completely bulletproof apps and can guarantee to stay ahead of every possible problem that might arise, then they need to shelve this Click To Run and continue to give the consumer the ability to investigate and troubleshoot
on their own.
This reminds me of how automobiles went from completely mechanical machines that everyone could work on in their back yard to computerized electronic monsters that only a select few are properly trained to work on. That seems to be how we are heading in
regards to our computer usage. Having less and less power to solve problems and find answers or to even troubleshoot issues seems to be where we are headed. We are being herded into a situation where we are going to become completely dependent on the manufacturer
and can do nothing on our own to fix our problems like we have done in the past. This Office problem is a perfect example. Nobody knows anything or can do anything except hope until the manufacturer decides to give it some attention. It is sad really.