On Fri, 20 May 2016 20:45:25 +0100, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
A slightly
higher proportion than of yore will be irritated because their W7/W8
computers were upgraded, but only if that stops things working

Windows 10 gets all the publicity, but there's another potentially
unwanted "upgrade". Many of my customers have reported that when they
run a repair of Office 2013, it changes to Office 2016. In theory
that's a good thing, as Office 2016 is slightly less annoying than
2013. But older add-ins that worked on Office 2013 may not work on
Office 2016, and then the customer is forced to do without them or
pay for upgrades of those add-ins.

That's nice extra revenue for my employer, but it's unfair to the
poor users who did not ask to get a new version of Office that won't
support their existing add-ins. As far as I know, there's no easy way
to go back. Even if you restore from backup, you still have the
original problem that caused you to need a repair of Office 2013 in
the first place.

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