Office 365 - very buggy?

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brucem

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So I'm testing O365 for deployment in a company - I have been surprised how buggy it feels - features exist in (say) the downloaded app but not the online version, then don't work properly in the cellphone app.

Example: make a contact group in office app on PC. Can send to it, works fine. Write an email on my phone to same group. Email won't send, something wrong with group. Email goes to drafts, but can't be opened and edited....

Skype for business - works OK on PC. If I try send IMs on Android to someone offline, it fails completely rather than sending once person is online. Each message from a person also appears as a separate conversation.

These things don't even feel like they'd beyond alpha yet, never mind beta.

And I can't find any docs online that details which features are at what point on what platform? Feels like MS is pretending O365 is a fully operational product - it feels a long way off that....

Any thoughts out there?
 
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What features are you using? Google Docs works quite well on both mobile and desktop and is free. Great collaboration features as well.
 
Johnatan56 said:
What features are you using? Google Docs works quite well on both mobile and desktop and is free. Great collaboration features as well.
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Google is our current solution - but the monthly cost (its only free for a smallish number of users in a company) is making MS more viable for us. But so far, Google seems much more robust and solid.
 
I have also found if you try to install the South African Afrikaans dictionary 0365 crashes spectacularly.

Had this happen on 3 machines at an Afrikaans speaking client. All three occasion had to reinstall Office and have now told the staff not to install the Afrikaans dictionary.
 
Deployed globally and we don't have issues OP States.
 
Thanks, helpful to hear others are experiencing stability
 
brucem said:
Google is our current solution - but the monthly cost (its only free for a smallish number of users in a company) is making MS more viable for us. But so far, Google seems much more robust and solid.
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It's only $5 per user and the rand is getting stronger as well.

crackersa said:
Don’t have these issues at my current job.

I suspect tech skill level and ebkac
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Sounds about right. You need training because they keep changing things and adding more crap almost monthly.
 
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I use Office 365 Personal and my family's business uses 365 Business Premium for the cloud-based email. Works really well and I'm not aware of any major grievances.

If I have any criticism for the general MS 365 ecosystem it's that Outlook for desktop is not a cloud-based email environment like Mailbird or Newton Mail, so the Outlook apps are not in sync across platforms and the web app is very limited. It would be epic if MS changed this and kept everything on the same page.

Mailbird is releasing an Android app soon and if it's any good I might switch, as I purchased a discounted lifetime account for the desktop app some time ago and it's quite good.
 
Every fcken time an office 2016 update rolls to my machine at work, I end up uninstalling and reinstalling. Without fail.
 
Sinbad said:
Every fcken time an office 2016 update rolls to my machine at work, I end up uninstalling and reinstalling. Without fail.
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Thats cos your IT lot are clueless....

You should know how this rolls.
 
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