Microsoft Office 2016 Incompatible
Ron Sherman (AWS, Splunk, ITIL)
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Trying to install an upgrade to MS Office 2016, I quickly found out that if you have an older version of MS Project or MS Visio (i.e., 2010, 2013) installed, they will be deleted as part of the MS Office Install. The interesting thing is that Project and Visio are stand-alone products and not part of the core Office Suite, so it would be logical to think that these 2 software products would not be touched. After installing Office 2016, you cannot then re-install older versions of Project or Visio on the same computer.
While I would logically think that Microsoft did this on purpose, in trying to sell Visio and Project software upgrades, supposedly they say that this is a problem, but there is currently no work-around available! Office 2016 has now be out for a year, so you would think that a fix would be in place by now.
Please be aware of this before upgrading to Office 2016.
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8 年Wow-Amazing the audacity of Microsoft (and poor design). Looks like it is still an issue, but for the rest of FEBRUARY you may have an option: "For Deferred Channel customers who received the following message when installing Office, Error: Stop, you should wait to install Office 2016. We’ll have to remove the following if you continue, this offer expires in February 2017. For Current Channel and First Release for Deferred Channel customers, this offer is no longer needed. Customers on these channels should install the latest update which now supports side-by-side installation." https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Error-Stop-you-should-wait-to-install-Office-2016-We-ll-have-to-remove-the-following-if-you-continue-a225347f-e102-4ea6-9796-5d1ac5220c3b
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8 年Office has always had a few weirdities when you have mixed versions of products loaded, but, yes, Office 2016 seems to be worse (or more demanding) than others.