Not everyone has had to deal with crashing productivity. Computerworld staffers running Office for Mac 2016 on El Capitan-powered Macs have been affected as well. Most of the crashes involve Outlook, the suite's email client, but other applications, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, also regularly drop dead, either separately or when Outlook goes down.

The issue goes back further than that, however, with complaints first appearing July 10, just one day after Microsoft launched the production build of Office for Mac 2016 and Apple delivered its first public beta of El Capitan. The bulk of those reporting problems with Office for Mac 2016 began seeing the applications crash last week after they upgraded to OS X 10.11, aka El Capitan. 'It would have been a simple correspondence: 'Hey, we see you use our new Office 2016 on Mac, there's a big OS X update coming, give us a bit of time until you download it.' No harm, no foul.' 'How is it remotely feasible that neither Microsoft (mostly at blame) or Apple (ignorance is not great customer service) had any proactive communication to NOT DOWNLOAD EL CAPITAN?' asked a commenter labeled 'cxr341' on Tuesday.

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