"Hurts that this all happened post-release, rather than in beta, but from where I sit, it looks like Apple and Microsoft have gotten their heads together and fixed the woes reported in this thread."Īpple released OS X 10.11.1, the first update to El Capitan, with changes that should stop the constant crashing of Microsoft's Office for Mac 2016 applications. "Have been running El Capitan 10.11.1 and all five Office 15.15 apps from 365 Home, concurrently, for about an hour now, with no spinning beach balls of death, no force quits, and no more hangs than an occasional stutter," said someone identified only as "rhustwit" today. Scattered reports on the longest thread were encouraging. "If you are using El Capitan, please update to 10.11.1 that Apple released today," added Sunder Raman, also with Microsoft, on another discussion thread. "Hello Everyone, Apple released the latest version of El Capitan this morning (10.11.1), please ensure that you are running the latest version of Office (15.15) and El Capitan (10.11.1)," wrote Faisal Jeelani, a member of the Outlook for Mac team, on one thread today. Today, a pair of Microsoft product managers simply urged users to update El Capitan to 10.11.1, without admitting blame or pointing fingers.
As time went on, however, Microsoft pointed to Apple as responsible, saying last week - after releasing an update to Office for Mac 2016 - that, "We are actively working with Apple to ensure resolution with the next update of OS X 10.11 El Capitan." Boot into recovery to downgrade to OS X El Capitan by restoring a Time Machine backup. Another option that you may be familiar with is holding alt/option during boot and choosing recovery. Then click the Get button or iCloud download button. Restart your Mac and when it is booting back up, hold Cmd + R at the same time. Or use this link to open the macOS Monterey page on the App Store: Get macOS Monterey. Although most users blamed Microsoft for the screw-up, neither Microsoft nor Apple acknowledged fault. If you're using macOS Mojave or later, you can get macOS Monterey via Software Update: Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Software Update.