Does MS Office crash on MS Employees?

[Tundro Walker]

I get done working on a large Excel file at work, and the thing locks up while saving. The error message was very helpful too ... "we're sorry, but the program has died. would you like to submit an error report?"

No. I'd like you to reimburse me for the time & money my company just wasted on this program eating a 4 hour project.

We're not talking MS Office 97 ... we're talking MS Office 2003 / XP, installed on Win XP. Post 21st century software, and it locks up.

So, it got me wondering. Do you think folks who work at Microsoft, who you know HAVE to use MS Office to do their work ... do you think they have these problems? Does Microsoft eat it's own proverbial dog food? And, do they choke on it sometimes like the rest of us?

Just curious.

[Aearenda]

Yes.

[Depressed Man]

Yup. (one of my friends is interning at Microsoft this summer, she's working on the Excel team. Though I forget what she's doing again [I think it was bug fixing?]).

[barbedsaber]

I bet they use abiword:)

[tuebinger]

CTRL+S, CTRL+S, CTRL+S, CTRL+S... That is my mantra when working on ANYTHING in Office, or any other program for that matter...

[init1]

I know what you mean. I had two incidents where MS Office would crash whenever a file was opened. The system had to be reimaged both times.

[Presto123]

I'm sure they have. I wonder how many angry employees took a Linux disk to the systems and changed IE to Firefox.

[Icehuck]

I get done working on a large Excel file at work, and the thing locks up while saving. The error message was very helpful too ... "we're sorry, but the program has died. would you like to submit an error report?"

No. I'd like you to reimburse me for the time & money my company just wasted on this program eating a 4 hour project.

We're not talking MS Office 97 ... we're talking MS Office 2003 / XP, installed on Win XP. Post 21st century software, and it locks up.

So, it got me wondering. Do you think folks who work at Microsoft, who you know HAVE to use MS Office to do their work ... do you think they have these problems? Does Microsoft eat it's own proverbial dog food? And, do they choke on it sometimes like the rest of us?

Just curious.

Yeah, it does get unstable with big excel sheets. Why did you turn off auto-recovery? You could have at least gotten 90% of your work back.

[rockstarrem]

Just remember to save next time obviously, I save pretty much every minute. I feel really bad though, that sucks.

[Spike-X]

So you worked on a project for four hours, and didn't hit Save until you'd finished?

No sympathy, sorry.

[billgoldberg]

So you worked on a project for four hours, and didn't hit Save until you'd finished?

No sympathy, sorry.

That was what I was thinking.

Computer class 101:


If you are working on a big project, save your work every 15/30 min.

I followed this rule since I first started using computer, and it has saved me numerous times (even in Ubuntu).

[fatality_uk]

Or at least enable the AutoSave function. It's there for a reason ;)

[Kernel Sanders]

What everyone said. It's almost negligent to work on a piece of work without saving every 15 mins or so, WHATEVER system that you're using.

[rudihawk]

So you worked on a project for four hours, and didn't hit Save until you'd finished?

No sympathy, sorry.

+1

Its common sense to save every 10-15minutes, - maybe even more regularly if you feel inclined to do so...