[Status update] I am starting to hate Office 2016
Several hours already trying to bypass the constant crashes...
And I need this terrible piece of... software just because of Skype for Business...
Aaaargh!!!!!
OpenOffice user since the old times when I could connect to Internet only via dial-up with a mere 56kb/s!
To chat only, you can rely on "common" skype...or Pdgin if you want something lighter :)
Skype for Business is one of the few reasons why I still cannot switch to Linux as my main OS - the web app is not good enough.
For now I solved the issue by installing the option for office 2016 with 2013 apps and as a workaround I keep Thunderbird and LibreOffice in Windows7. Let's hope that the 2013 apps are not so bug-infested as the 2016 ones.
But what are the issues with Office 2016? I am currently using it with SAP EPM for Business Planning and Consolidation ans have no serios issues
It was the famous ntdll.dll exception code 0xc0000005 whenever you run or close office 2016 applications... quite annoying to get multiple popups for appcrash restarting and stopping the app. I am almost sure there is no hardware problem - checked the RAM, CPU and HDD. Everything else worked
Usually I get only minor problems with the audio refusing from time to time to work in Skype for Business, but OK.. I know, my laptop was never meant to work with Windows 7 and I played with the drivers to get it working. Not a big deal- I just need to disable/enable the HD audio from the device manager and all is good.
All probably depends a lot on windows and office version and on combinations with additional software. The mystery was that when the crashes started I have not changed or updated anything.
I suspect that a manual check for updates (nothing installed) somehow managed to corrupt my profile data for office365 applications and that MS does not clean up everything after a full uninstall and several restarts - just a theory.
For me office 2016 does not add much value compared to office 2013, which I used in the past...
May be you can try Windows 10? In my system I have Windows 10 64 bit and Office 2016 32-bit with a lot of other software... and no serious issues.
It really depends on what software you need and how much you depend on that to put food on the table. I am not planning to switch to Windows 10 in the near future, if at all. Most likely the end result will be some Linux distro for browsing/e-mail and a VM with Windows 7 for other stuff or dual-boot.
In general Windows 10 is not so bad :) And in some cases you simply can't avoid using MS Office.