I’m working on Win10/Office 2016 these days, well I spend most of my time waiting for it. And shaking my head…
I was on the beta programs for Office 2007 and 2010 and those early betas were more reliable and performant than this ‘production’ 2016.
I have a feeling its a lot to do with Windows rather than Office, but my god its slow.
Alt tf to get options – 3 second wait before the dialog come up. Alt f11 for VBA, 5 seconds before the editor lethargically appears.
I know I am not on a super computer, but its not a total lemon either, a perfectly serviceable corporate machine. Or it would be without this combo.
10 seconds to open Excel, but its all forgiven because they have animated the activecell movement when you change selections.
10 seconds to open Word but its all ok, they animate the carriage return…
for real…
In ye olden days I had a dumb terminal onto a mainframe across a phone line that was more responsive.
All the animations made me sick, and not just because of the wasted cycles, so I turned it off in Windoze settings. Does some Microsoft UX expertidiot really fucking think people want to watch the computer slooowly respond to basic commands, slooowly???
Its like back in the day when we didn’t turn screenupdating off so it looked like we were doing the work manually instead of tossing it off in a little netscape window to geocities and alta vista.
Today alone I had five 10 minute plus application freezes, Excel, SQL Server Management studio, notepad++, and some other stuff. And Windoze Explorer crashed. This is what makes me think its at least as much a Windows problem as Office.
I was thinking I might consider a wondows lapper next now macbooks are shit, but it looks like it would be unusably slow or uncarriably heavy and bulky (and probably too powerful for a battery so coming with a 50m power cable on a reel). Never mind their ridiculous intrusive prove you’re not a pirate, frequently, features.
So maybe it will be a linux Dell finally, as system 76 only offer US keyboards (and sticker sets for johnny foreigners (like me)).
Unless you have a better suggestion for a (non wonkdoze) laptop?
How is your win10 Office 2016 experience?
cheers
simon
Smurf on Spreadsheets 
Wednesday, 20th June, 2018 at 4:20 pm |
Not too bad. With all the animations etc. turned off Excel is broadly OK, though a Pentium IV and 2003 was just as responsive – with probably a quarter of the CPU grunt and an 8th of the memory? I have a recentish desktop i3 with 16GB.
Wednesday, 20th June, 2018 at 5:02 pm |
Windows 10 for me has a blurry image probably because of the directx resizing and etc. I have tried many combinations of resolutions and resizing but I still get a blurry display.
Now Office 2016 is like you said very slow and extremely unresponsive especially when working with files that take about 10 seconds to be saved (10MB). And macros on my office 2013 ran twice as fast with the same code so I’m not sure what’s wrong there.