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Microsoft acknowledges crashes under OS X 10.11 El Capitan, can’t offer timeline for a fix

The good news is that Microsoft has acknowledged the massive crashes between Office for Mac 2016 and the newly-released OS X 10.11 El Capitan. The bad news is that they don’t have an estimated timeline for a fix. In an emailed statement, a Microsoft spokeswoman said the company is looking into the problem. “We know […]

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Microsoft Office 2016 users complain about bugs, crashes under OS X 10.11 El Capitan update

Well, this is a giant mess. Following the release of Apple’s new OS X 10.11 El Capitan on Wednesday, a number of users have complained of crashes with Office 2016 and the new operating system. “This is beyond the Pale. We basically can’t use Office on our computers,” wrote one user on the longest thread […]

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Some iPhone users on T-Mobile U.S. network reporting random “blue screen of death” errors

This is a bit weird. In the past few weeks, a growing number of iPhone owners on the T-Mobile U.S. network have been impacted by seemingly random crashes and reboots, without any clear indication as to why or how to solve the problem. The problem seems to manifest itself with an iPhone briefly flashing a […]

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Hardware MacBook Pro News

Apple extends repair program to MacBook Pro notebooks that may be experiencing AMD GPU glitches

If your rather expensive MacBook Pro notebook is exhibiting video issues, Apple just began a new program which might be able to help you. A new repair initiative, officially titled “MacBook Pro Repair Extension Program for Video Issues,” applies to MacBook Pro computers sold between February 2011 and December 2013 that exhibit distorted video, no […]

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Microsoft acquires HockeyApp development tool, incorporates new iOS and Android SDKs into Visual Studio Online services

It’s hard to say what Microsoft will do with it, but it could be interesting. According to a blog post over on the Microsoft Developer Network, Microsoft has acquired HockeyApp, a class leading service for mobile crash analytics and app distribution for developers building apps on iOS, Android and Windows Phone. The company stated that […]