Frequently Asked Questions about the Windows 10 Free upgrade

Wynona said:

Be my guest. :)

Out of curiosity, were you able to reinstall O365 without having to reinstall Windows 10? I wasn't.

I didn't have to reinstall Win 10. As I recall I removed Office from the computer in my account. Then I rebooted the computer and went into my account and reinstalled.

Malwarebytes needs to fix this problem or give you the option of quarantining a program or not. It was a pain getting O365 back and I won't be trying the Anti-Ransomware program until I know it won't happen again.

I won't be trying anti ransomeware until it has a proven track record as I think it was why I had an upgrade problem a few weeks ago. This comp has a great record of troublefree updates since Oct 2014 so I am not going to poke it with a stick again!

But one could say adding a beta to a beta was asking for it! Thank goodness for disk images!

Wynona said:

OK, so it looks like you've confirmed for me that it was the Anti-Ransomware program in beta, so I guess that's what I had.

The problem for me lies in the fact that Microsoft Office is one of the most used products around, as is Corel's Word Perfect Suite. So, if it were my beta, I'd have tested in-house to be very sure that it didn't touch any of the Microsoft or Corel product. Of course, that would go for Nuance, Cyberlink, and a host of other popular products in every day use.

I agree! A little more in-house testing should have been done. I could understand some third party programs causing a false positive but not a program from MS.

Wynona said:

OK, so it looks like you've confirmed for me that it was the Anti-Ransomware program in beta, so I guess that's what I had.

The problem for me lies in the fact that Microsoft Office is one of the most used products around, as is Corel's Word Perfect Suite. So, if it were my beta, I'd have tested in-house to be very sure that it didn't touch any of the Microsoft or Corel product. Of course, that would go for Nuance, Cyberlink, and a host of other popular products in every day use.

Darn. . .didn't even know Word Perfect was still around, haven't used it since the mid ninties shortly after coming out of DOS, and going into GUI form. . .

I still do book editing, and all the publishing houses I edited for sent me copies of Microsoft Office. I just received three copies of Office 2016. . .lucky me. . .