> back in 2000, Microsoft Office was unreliable, bloated crap Sadly, it did not stop there. When I worked as Windows sysadmin / helpdesk monkey, I had to insta

> back in 2000, Microsoft Office was unreliable, bloated crap Sadly, it did not stop there. When I worked as Windows sysadmin / helpdesk monkey, I had to install Windows 2013 on several machines because it just stopped working for no apparent reason. On one machine, an update to Office 2013 broke Autodesk Inventor (by replacing/updating some vbs file, I suspect); reinstalling Inventor kind-of worked, but it caused MS Outlook to crash whenever the user tried to write an email (some might consider this an improvement, but not everyone agrees). Reinstalling Office fixed that without breaking Inventor again. The worst part - from a helpdesk perspective - was that there was no rhyme or reason to it, this type of problem would pop up randomly on some machines, while other machines with practically identical hardware, OS, and applications installed ran perfectly fine.