![]() > Outlook 2010 does not support the modern authentication and encryption that Exchange Online, and require. I have plenty of issues with Apple UI decisions, but Windows and Office are such a shitshow at this point that the Mac looks like a finished product while Windows looks like a failed project cobbled together from. But I still regret not getting them at least one Mac. So I finally shitcanned all of it and installed LibreOffice and Thunderbird (which has improved drastically in the 20 years since I've looked at it). and then the continual hounding hounding hounding for a "Microsoft account." For months, my parents would occasionally call me because Office would stop working and demand credentials (mine, of course, since it was my license). Microsoft's execrable policies and design made setting these up a clinic on how to piss customers off. I made the mistake of buying Windows computers for my parents, because that's what they're used to. MS Office has regressed dismally since its heyday in the '90s, and now with Microsoft's offensive hounding to "log in with your Microsoft account" at every goddamned turn it's simply unacceptable. Once it’s 100% cloud, I think competition becomes more viable. I honestly believe the biggest barrier to entry in the Office space was that everyone used to need MS Office to edit files out of band. It’s not quite there yet because the installation is too cumbersome. For example, I’d love to host my own instance of Only Office so I can send people files and have them edit online with authentication happening via magic links. I really hope the whole cloud subscription thing opens a door for competition and comes back to haunt them. ![]() I use several (user) profiles to silo my own work and I’m not buying 4 Office subscriptions. Im still upset about the change from device based to user based licensing too. Business Standard is a bad deal for small businesses vs buying a perpetual version of Office. Everyone uses those for Exchange, but they don’t include Outlook. I wonder how that will affect the Business Basic subscriptions. I have not seen this issue since I repaired VMware Tools but not a lotof time has passed.> 20 won't be eligible for connecting to Microsoft 365 services after October 2023 While these problems have been occurring, I have also noticed a pattern of the Guest screen going black and remaining that way for a bit followed by a message that the VMware display driver had crashed and recovered. During the height of the problem I ran the Office 2007 Diagnostics Tool and found nothing. Once I get a successful launch that way, I could then launch from the Word Icon until the next episode of the problem. I had noticed previously that I could get Microsoft Word out of the "spontaneous crash at launch" loop by launching it from the Icon of a Word document rather than the Word Icon. I'm not sure what to read into this since applications refusing to open at all was an intermittant problem from the beginning of the issue. ![]() I can still crash Spice by attempting to open one of the files that I was working on when this problem first surfaced. I tested the effect of this change on the application crashing problem and there now appear to be no applications that refuse to open. Now the Virtual Machine drop-down menu contains the option to upgrade VMwae Tools rather than to install it. This process completed normally and I rebooted. I clicked on the install option and proceeded to do a repair install. VMware Tools appeared to be running at the time and the Tools Icon was in the Quickstart menu at the bottom right. I noticed that the Virtual Machine drop-down menu at the top of the Guest Desktop had an option to install VMware Tools.
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