Brandon Muramatsu

Upgrading to Mac Office 12.2.3

So, I run Office 2008 on my Mac. Recently Microsoft released the 12.2.3 update, and I had lots of problems upgrading my installation.

screenshot-applications-folderTurns out, I had to put the Microsoft Office 2008 folder directly in the Mac OS’ named “Applications” folder and not a sub-folder. Why?

Why do I have to put the folder in a specific location–and why now? I’ve been able to successfully upgrade through 12.2.2 with the “Microsoft Office” folder in a sub-folder within the “Applications” folder.

I really hate programs that require a specific folder/path location. It’s my computer and I’d rather have short listings of files in folders, than crazy long listings.

Consider the case of the 12.2.3 updater, it searches on other drives for a copy that’s upgradeable and given how slow it is, it must be searching in more than just the “Drive:Applications” folder. Ok I suppose it could be really inefficient, but that just makes things worse I think.

Thanks Again, Microsoft :(

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  1. Trent
    Trent says:

    Microsoft will never figure out how to do things without a registry …. They figure if it isn’t in the default location the Registry should tell you where it is … Heaven forbid you should “ask the user”

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