Office 2013 -- Why be so radically different in the UI?

I've noticed something rather nasty about Office 2013. For some reason that I cannot correlate to any action on my part the Outlook UI (as an example) will suddenly start showing garbage and artifacts in the ribbon and the tree on the left, as well as trashing
or hiding parts of messages in previews.
At first I was chalking it up to a laptop that was a couple of years old and, maybe, it was having some graphics issues (even though no other apps were suffering). However, now that I've gotten a new laptop, I am seeing the same issues. I noticed a flag in
the options titled "disable hardware acceleration" and I checked that to "on". No luck. Still getting garbage now and then which hides information from me. Hiding or trashing information is kind of a "no-no" when it happens
within an app that is trying to sell itself as "enterprise class."
At any rate, I am not hoping for any actual response to this in terms of real help. Instead, my intention is to get one - just one - senior developer at MS to ask themselves "Why do we choose to deviate from the rest of planet earth in the way that we
choose to display things. It doesn't count as 'cutting edge' or 'innovation' because it often doesn't work right during some relatively basic operations. In those cases we look extra bad because - unlike all the other developers on earth - we wrote the OS
too. We own the entire stack and therefore have literally no excuse. Maybe we should just be normal within the apps that form the bulk of our cash flow."
...that's all I guess.

No, thank you.
I appreciate that you are interested in root causing this. I am not. Let me restate my original intention: Microsoft -- Please stop doing exotic things with apps that enterprises depend on.
That being said, why would it matter if I have antivirus programs installed? If MicroSoft has done something with the UI layer of office that anti virus software can interfere with, then that's not something I want to know about. Rather, it would indicate to
me that I need to find an alternative solution from a software vendor which isn't doing something so strange with something so routine.

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yet. Check out the top 10 features:
Going Mobile. Microsoft has geared the new software towards a more mobile-friendly audience, allowing users to interact more
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In The Cloud. Microsoft’s SkyDrive cloud service is being positioned to play a key role in Office users’ daily computing
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Is it time yet for Microsoft to "Recall" Office 2013 and provide anyone who has a 2013 license a replacement Office 2010 license?

The interface is terrible and can't be changed. Every application in the suite locks up/crashes nearly constantly on any machine it is used on. The activation process is terrible and wastes hours of any support/IT dept's time. From a 'privacy
standpoint', the software is seemingly criminally intrusive. It is clearly a product that should never have been released and is so far from functional that it can't be repaired by any 'service pack', 'hotfix', or 'patch'. It needs to be completely
scrapped.
The only 'redeeming quality' of this software is that the guy who was in charge of creating it is gone from Microsoft. (Unfortunately, he is now President Obama's appointee for running the attempt at repairing the 'healthcare.gov' website...
out of the frying pan... )
When the software is installed using one profile (domain or machine account) and a different profile tries to use the software, it requires 're-activation' - which often fails because the software believes it has been installed multiple times. (This is particularly
frustrating because it has to be installed by an administrative user, but most of the time, the person who 'uses' the software is not the 'administrator' - so it is almost always being 'installed' using one profile and 'used' using another profile).
The necessary intrusion into privacy created by the requirement of a "Microsoft Account" to use the software is seemingly criminal.
The tracking of, and installation of licenses is absolutely ridiculous.
An example:
Many of my clients have many users and many computers (up to 75 or so).
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'user', but these machines get moved between users, and the software license is tied to the 'machine' and not to the 'user' so as soon as that happens, the licenses and the users are no longer
in line and become impossible to track.
I could create a "Microsoft User Account" for each 'computer'... and I can't even count the ways this would be a nightmare to try to track.
I actually did that up front for one client, and created Exchange email boxes for each computer so that "prove you are really you" emails from Microsoft could be received managed, and responded to, and passed out second usernames and passwords
to all of the users so they could "log-in" to their Office 2013 software, and created a database of the 'computer usernames and passwords' so I could track this... unfortunately, this confused the users (as it rightfully should) so they would change
the passwords for their computer's 'Microsoft User Account' thus locking me out and invalidating my database, ... and... CLUSTERF#%K!!!
As a 'best - worst case', I have had to create a single 'Microsoft User Account" for each of my clients' businesses so I can install and activate Office 2013 products. This is a whole new set of "Awesome Stupidity".
Now, I can put a new computer into a client's office and install their new license key for their oem Office 2013, and it shows up in the 'business's Microsoft User Account'. Then when I give the machine to the user, I get to 're-activate' the software
(hoping that it doesn't tell me to piss-off - which happens about 40% of the time. This is a process that can only be described as a "feat of engineering created by a group of monkeys whose former jobs included 'janitor at MAD magazine headquarters'
or 'beer-pong referee').
It starts with two hours of pressing phone buttons and ultimately talking to someone who tells me "yeah, nothin' I can do about that I'm just here for product activation" (which, incidentally, is done by machine until you pass through MS's ridiculous
labyrinth of repetitious keystroking until the machine is convinced you are just too stupid to punch in the right numbers and allows you to talk to a person... who then asks you for the exact same set of numbers and repeats back the exact same responding set
of numbers and acts dumbfounded when it still doesn't work - since it didn't work the first six times you punched or said it into the phone) followed by "I need to send you to the support group... but because it's 6:30 pm (in a process you started at
3:00pm) they are gone for the day and you'll have to call back on Monday morning"
At some point in the process, you get to log into the "Microsoft user account" and 'roll the roulette wheel of stupidity' by trying to activate the right software from a list of 40 different lines that all say "Microsoft Office 2013 Home and
Business oem", but none give any indicator or differentiating factor like for instance: license key, date installed, license key last 4 digits, mother's maiden name, phase of moon when software was first activated, color or type of blood of the user's
paperboy's dog's previous owner... NOTHING... RANDOM FREAKING STAB IN THE DARK - pick one, any one, hope its the license you are trying to install onto this machine, 'cause if not, you very well may kill the product on some other machine.
So through the process, the lucky support staff person gets' to waste roughly an hour and a half on average for every Microsoft Office 2013 installation. I have actually had to start telling my clients that they are going to likely have to pay an extra
$100 or so per machine in order to get their new Microsoft Office software which comes on their new computer activated - that number tends to work out roughly accurately - except that it is a terrible way of trying to 'please a client'.
Oh,... and did I mention... "THE SOFTWARE CONSISTANTLY FAILS"!?!
A client tries to open a document that they have been using for 8 years and Excel doesn't say "Hey, I don't know how to deal with some element of the file that you put in here using Excel 2003, or Office 2010 (both products, by the way, which worked
great) - no... instead,... it crashes. Doesn't really do any damage to the file it choked on, but the work you'd been doing on three other files which you also had open,... yeah,... that work is gone.
Yeah,.... over time, I have developed a pretty consistent spiel for client's needing new computers that goes over how absolutely terrible Office 2013 is, and explains that our options are further limited by Microsoft's yanking of all Office 2010 or previous
products from market availability, and explaining the merits of both LibreOffice and OpenOffice, as well as their drawbacks. I also have a strangely static response explaining how "larger companies are not burdened by these issues because they are
able to use MOPL which allows them to downgrade their productivity software to Office 2010 so they can continue to function happily, but this is really not a cost effective solution for smaller companies who primarily buy oem Office products with their replacement
computers".
Unfortunately, many clients still decide they want to go with Office 2013 because they apparently believe "it really can't be that bad". The value in my 'presale descriptions' are only really realized when they come back to me a week, two
weeks, or up to a month after the new machine is in place and say "wow,... you were right". The place I am left open for any further problems is when I don't impress upon them beforehand just HOW BAD OFFICE 2013 REALLY IS. In that case,
they still come back to me as though I have done something wrong foe selling them this piece of $#!% software and I have to remind them of our previous discussions.
Strangely, far too few heed the warnings and buy the software anyway - but the discussion has saved many clients the costs of Microsoft Project, because the discussion of LibreOffice and OpenOffice nearly always leads to at least a small philosophical conversation
about 'Open Source Software' in general, and my absolute favorite descriptive analogy in that discussion is to compare Microsoft Project at $600 v. ProjectLibre at $0 - and then further describe the costs of licensing and implementing the associated back-end
server solutions, etc.
This is a saving grace for me, because even though the client has been saddled with Office 2013, they have also saved substantially on Project and it is a rare (but granted, not absolutely absent) occasion that ProjectLibre is lacking some feature or function
that they actually need or want to use - and on those occasions, finding out has cost them absolutely nothing in software purchases.
Its not surprising, I suppose, that clients have grown to accept Office as a required 'cost', but still choke heavily on the price-tag of Project every time they have to buy it. The interesting thing to watch over the coming couple of years will be
'how many businesses stop accepting MS Office as a 'required cost' due to the failing of the software itself and the fact that most are being burned, at least once, by purchasing the software "against technical advice" and are learning, merely by
virtue of HOW BAD Office is, that there are other options out there that both cost less and work better... I mean,... LOTS BETTER.
How many businesses that are used to accepting the cost of Microsoft Office as a cost of doing business will be moved over to open source options and satisfied by them by the time Microsoft releases its next version - which will, presumably work - such that
they will no longer justify the cost of Microsoft's offering even if it is 'superior' to the open source offerings because the open source offerings are plenty sufficient and include a price tag of $0 and an installation/implementation time that is much, much
shorter than Microsoft's offering.
If Microsoft doesn't make some dramatic reparations, and do it soon, I expect their market share will be reduced in this area by a very significant margin.
I am suggesting either a 'Complete Recall' of Office 2013 including an 'uninstall 2013/install 2010' process driven by the automatic update engine, or at the very least, a free and easy downgrade rights offering for anybody who has already purchased 2013
and anyone who purchases it between now and the time the next "functional product" is released.

I understand the inconvenience you are experiencing when working with Office 2013.
If you have any feedback about Office 2013 product, click the and submit to Microsoft.
Microsoft will decide how to fix the problem for all customers.
For the activation mechanism, it intends to protect customers of their rights and interests.
For a retail version of Office, if it was purchased with a disk, Microsoft account is not necessary during the installation.
For volume license of Office, refer to the following link to deploy Office suites can be much efficient:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc178982.aspx
For the problem Office 2013 keep crashing, check the following link to check:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2813143/en-us
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2758592/en-us
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Word error: Word cannot establish a network connection with this document after the system resumed from suspend mode. Save the document into a different file to keep any changes.
Having searched the error message I can see that hot fixes were created to fix the issue in Word 2007 and 2010, but nothing seems to relate to Office 2013.
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In regarding of the issue, it may be caused a lot of reasons. Please check to see whether the following link is helpful:
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/921541/en-gb?p=1
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Then Office hang when saving the file also may be caused by a printer installation.
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APP-V Office 2013 configuration.xml

Hi all,
I'm trying to roll out Office 2013 with APP-V, whenever I change the config.xml to accept the EULA it still pops up with the EULA.
The documentation for APP-V differs from the normal ODT config.xml, what's the difference and am I missing out on something?
See the document from Microsoft on the configuration.xml within app-v:
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<Add SourcePath="C:\office2013" OfficeClientEdition="32" >
<Product ID="O365ProPlusRetail">
<Language ID="nl-nl" />
<Language ID="en-us" />
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<Product ID="ProjectProRetail">
<Language ID="nl-nl" />
<Language ID="en-us" />
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<Product ID="VisioProRetail" >
<Language ID="nl-nl" />
<Language ID="en-us" />
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You can use two registry keys to disable it, push them using a GPO:
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App-V 5 SP2 and Office 2013 Pro Plus

Hi
We have a terminal environment (RDS) of 20 servers and have implemented App-V 5 SP2 in it and deployed Office 2013 to it.
We don't publish Office 2013 globally because not all users are supposed to get Office 2013.
We have 2 different deployment configurations (XML's) that are configured to universal groups and the user's are members of that depending on which configuration they are supposed to have.
Now the problem, when we log a user onto the RDS and he is a member of one of the Office group he get's the Office packages and the Integrator runs and "Mail (Microsoft Office 2013)" cpl is created in Control panel and everything works fine.
When the user logs off and on again and goes to another server in our farm he gets the Office packages but no integrator runs and there is no "Mail (Microsoft Office 2013)" in control panel.
But if the users happens to log on to the same server as he landed in first place then he has access to "Mail (Microsoft Office 2013)" in control panel.
We are using network load balance and session broker for our farm.
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Best Regards Kristjan R. Halldorsson

Hello,
It is only supported if you publish the package globally and since you aren't publishing globally this is most likely the reason you have issues.
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I have logged this Microsoft as well but still haven't had much luck. In Office 2010 it used to work fine as it a 32 bit product.
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the same error message. The network administrative installation point is readable by the normal installing account, but I even get the same error when I login as me and initiate setup.exe manually, and I have all rights to this point.
Here's the critical point from a log file:
2014/03/11 11:53:49:691::[2372] DistributionPoint parsed. The distribution point is now set to: \\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2013
2014/03/11 11:53:49:691::[2372] COMPANYNAME specified in config.xml.
2014/03/11 11:53:49:691::[2372] USERNAME specified in config.xml.
2014/03/11 11:53:49:800::[2372] Setupexe Resiliency Mode is set to [PerformIfApplicable]; thus Resiliency is [disabled] for the [InstallExecutionMode]
2014/03/11 11:53:49:910::[2372] Searching for default versions of resource files under the folder [\\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2013].
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] Error: GetDirectories: search path \\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2013 does not exist
ErrorCode: 0(0x0). Failed final attempt to load a setupexe resource file.
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] Error: GetDirectories: search path \\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2013 does not exist
Type: 34::InvalidDirectory.
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] WER element [SuppressModal] is set to value [true]
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] WER element [P4] is set to value [InvalidDirectory]
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] Catalyst execution finished: 03/11/2014 11:53:50. Return code: 30034. Exception caught: InvalidDirectory.
2014/03/11 11:53:50:019::[2372] PERF: TickCount=894821 Name=RunSetup Description=End function
I cannot find any references to this exact error anywhere on the Internet. Can anyone tell me what this means, and how I fix it?

As automated, the utility that runs setup.exe maps a drive letter to
\\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt using a kboxmap AD account, which has read access to the whole \KBOXalt tree. I used that same kboxmap AD account manually to simulate what the utility does, and hit the same problem. But here's what's
odd: right next to that
\\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2013 directory is an
\\archive.ads.college.edu\archive\KBOXalt\Office2010 directory, both created the same way, and the Office 2010 installation has always worked perfectly using the kboxmap AD account. I don't understand why Office 2013 is only working for an account with
read/write access, where Office 2010 worked fine for an account with only read access. Especially when the Office 2013 resource kit documentation clearly states that the account running the installation should only have read access, nothing more. (All this
KBOX stuff comes from the fact that our deployment environment is a Dell KACE KBOX 1000. However, that plays no part in the problem: ignoring the KBOX 1000, I can manually recreate the problem every time.)

Office 2013 -- Why be so radically different in the UI?

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