Microsoft

I have had the same issue for over a year and cannot get technical support without paying for it. It all began when I did one of their critical updates or they did an auto update. When I open a new document and start typing and then When I go to save it, it often looks like it has saved but has locked up Word. I have to force quit. And when I go to reopen the document is it blank. Very upsetting and frustrating. I think it is appalling that Microsoft demands I pay for their defective product that I did not create nor cause the issue with.

I have since learned I am not the only one this happened to. Microsoft started doing updates without the warnings and if you turned your computer off whilst it was updating it caused it to crash. This cost me to have fixed + lost me 5 days of working. Having got my computer back Word & Excel asked me to sign in or I would lose them, tried this but as it had originally been set up by the store and although I thought I had the password. nothing worked. I couldn't reset password as I don't have a mobile and 3 days on they still haven't responded to the questions I had to answer to access to reset. Not impressed Microsoft.

When someone hacked my email account for Hotmail/Outlook, Microsoft wanted verification that they made impossible to give. They wanted me to fill in my email address where the letters were missing, HOWEVER, there was NO possible way to do that! Nothing to click on, no cursor, no button, nothing! Not only that, but the email address I gave them for in case my first one was compromised ALSO wouldn't let me in because Microsoft controlled that one too!

I bought a Surface Pro 4 for my daughter's birthday. We were trying to use the computer and set it up but once we did the touchscreen nor the pen worked. We went to the store and they did updates and all and we spent like 2 hours at the store and they said it was all fixed, but when we got home and checked if the touchscreen worked it didn't, neither did the pen! Then we go back to the store 1 year later and they did updates again and the guy he left and said he was going to come back. We ask the guy to come back with our computer and he said there was a hardware problem. We ask, "What can we do?" and he says that they can try and fix it or we would have to pay $440 to repair it! This product sucks. Do NOT buy it.

Worst program I have ever used to the point where I may be switching my business exclusively to Gmail. How the government permits such a crap email program to exist is frightening. You add email addresses to the program and they disappear. 2007, 2011 were great. This Office 365 is a piece of **.

I would give minus stars if I could. This company decided to lock two of my email accounts due to "security reasons" because I switched to a different location. In order to recover the accounts they send a code to another account you have linked to that email. Just so happens both of the locked accounts were linked to each other so I had no access to the code.

I got a Surface Pro 4 for Christmas, and I absolutely loved it, very slick machine, perfect size, lightweight, fast. Use it primarily for school, but used it for recreation as well. Two days after the Fourth of July I went to use it for school work, only for the tablet to not turn on. It was charging properly, and just two days prior was running perfectly. A quick google search and I found out this was a very common problem with the Surface Pro. I tried all the troubleshooting such as holding the power button and doing a hard reset, to no avail.

I purchased about a product valued about 3000$ from Microsoft store online. Once they shipped the product, they did NOT ask FedEx to ask for customer signature. FedEx guy also left the package on the porch. It caused me a lot of trouble [needed to cancel my doctor appointment and took a taxi - which all cost me over 100$] to get home and get the package. It ruined my unboxing experience and got me lots of stressed. ALTHOUGH I love the product itself, but I do not why Microsoft is so very irresponsible in providing a good customer care. I called their customer service couple of times to give them a feedback to fix this flaw in their delivery system, but they were so rude - not even accepting that this is their fault. VERY disappointment with their customer service.

My entire family is increasingly concerned with Microsoft's treacherous behavior and after ~25 years of use of their products we decided that the PC with Windows 10 we purchased in 2016 was our last purchase of their products. What is happening? We realized that the company ever increasing greed made their products, especially Windows 10 extremely user-unfriendly. Skype that once was a beautiful and useful program became basically useless after acquisition by Microsoft.

As a 71 year old woman with poor hearing, marginal eyesight and who types with one arthritic finger, I use my computer for a lot of life's needs. My computer reads back to me and I can enlarge most things on the screen, however, Microsoft seems incapable of these accommodations. Of course they are holding me up to "renew a subscription" to be able to use MS Word and other apps that I formerly had been able to purchase outright. Furthermore, as a former college professor, recently retired, I had staff available to sort out downloading and other issues.

I received my credit card bill and noticed charges for Microsoft Xbox, which I do not use. There were hundreds of dollars in charges. I called Microsoft. Apparently they outsource to the Philippines. I was on the phone for an hour and a half. I verified my name, address, phone number and credit card number but because I couldn't provide the email address of the person who stole my information both the agent and the supervisor I spoke with, refused to help me. The agent told me "I'm on your side. We will refund the charges."

Windows 10 Spring Update Build 1803 has done irreversible damage to my desktop computer. This is a commercial computer with Windows 10 Enterprise, both the software and the computer itself cost over $5,000.00 to build and deploy. So far this update has cost over $50,000.00 in downtime and repairs, and it still is not repaired. I had done a fresh install of the operating system this morning June 30, 2018, during reboot the computer would not boot to Windows, instead it has booted to Diagnostic Mode and will not go to me login screen. I did a fresh install last night June 29, 2018, and the same results. That install was less than five days old and crashed on a netio.sys faulty driver that destroyed my disk, making it completely unusable.

I bought a brand new Surface Book 1 in 2016 Boxing Day and received it on 2017. When you pay 2400 AUD for a product you want to make sure the product works well and long. Microsoft offered only a one year guaranty. Well I thought they are so confident about their product that they don't see a reason to offer a longer guarantee. All of the sudden my Surface Book had a hardware problem only after 18 months! I should add that I keep my stuff very carefully, my previous laptop, which I bought much cheaper, worked for 7 years and I sold it after buying this one. So, the first feeling I had was that my trust has been betrayed by Microsoft.

After updating I had to reboot my computer. I have downloads from my university but they are not compatible with this new version. I talked to Alex most likely from India, and he accused me of looking for a free service "there is no such thing as a free lunch" he stated. Windows 10 upgrade forced me to reboot my computer which was stuck for days in an infinite loop of previous Windows version update. I explained to him that it is not free, it is included with the tuition. I wish there was something else than Windows, and Microsoft as common tools. Such a bad experience!

An automatic Windows 10 update (I hate Windows 10) caused my keyboard and mouse to become nonfunctional. (Screen stuck on "Choose your keyboard layout screen".) Day after day I've spend hours on the phone. Each day, a different person tells me a different thing. First, I was sent a media creation tool, which was supposed to fix it. When I called back to complete the process, I was told this would not work and they need to send out a technician. I was told to go get a cash card to pay the technician they will send out. Waiting around for the technician, I called to follow up. Was told they never send out technicians and there's nothing in the notes about this. I'm supposed to take my PC to a Microsoft store for fixing. There are none in my town. Ridiculous! I hate Microsoft. Hate Windows 10.

Microsoft UK disabled my software claiming wrongly that I had not paid subscription. A letter to them was returned demanding a copy of a letter that they had sent in receipt of my subscriptions. Emails are returned saying that the address is not monitored. So nobody will answer. Phone calls repeat ad nauseam a long mantra saying the call will be recorded. Only you never get through. After pressing a whole series of buttons on the phone, it asks you to wait, with more irritating messages. But after 5 minutes it switches off. Do not lease this product. Microsoft UK service is the worst in the western world. They despise their users. Their real customers are the PC makers.

I've got an old computer that got hit with a virus. I had to reinstall Windows, using the recovery disc that came with the computer. The product key isn't working. Got on the phone with customer service. They were very rude. They were very difficult to understand (thick Indian accents) but the call center was so loud I could hear the other techs as well. That's fine, and I tried to be polite. However, when I asked the woman to repeat what she said, mostly due to me being hard of hearing, she got very rude with me, even telling me to speak English better. To add to the rudeness, when the problem couldn't be resolved, which has resulted in me being unable to do much of anything with this computer, she recommended I go back to where I bought the computer years ago, and have them fix it because, "it is not our problem if your key is invalid." Very unhappy with their tech support.

I had a technical question. I had a series of values that clearly did not add to zero, yet that was what shown on the spreadsheet - zero. How could that be. I am a home user. What I clearly learned was that Microsoft really could care less about home users. I paid the annual, service charge of $99 but when push came to shove, I received no value. I spent a total of over 7 hours constantly being redirected, waiting, receiving no answer at the redirected phone and then starting over again. On one call my phone ran out of battery and the call was automatically ended. every person I talked with had no idea how to fix the problem. One time I was given phone number that was the phone number to a fax machine. I finally gave up. A few weeks later I received an e-mail from Microsoft asking about the quality of their servia ce. I complained that it was terrible and did not resolve the issue. I never heard back.

My account was "temporarily" suspended as a result of a selfish jerk who had access to my account reporting it after I finally locked him out of it. I submitted multiple -- so many, oh so many -- requests to have it unsuspended, only. "... [w]e received your service request and after review, I found Two-Step Verification (TSV) has been enabled on the account. Unfortunately, when TSV is turned on, we are unable to assist with an account recovery as TSV takes the account recovery completely out of control of customer service... The only option we have is to permanently suspend this account to prevent any further use of the account. I have verified that the account is suspended and will remain so. Although this may not be the resolution you were expecting, unfortunately, it is the only resolution we can provide."

My laptop is barely 1 year old. It came with Windows 10. Recently the Windows 10 upgrade ran and ever since my computer has not worked properly. Every couple of minutes I get a low disc (D) issue. It tells me to click on it but nothing happens. When I look try to clean up space my computer says things are clean. My speaker icon on the bottom right no longer works. My screen goes blank, I have to hit the power button and turn it off and on. The camera for sign on only works part of the time. I'm not a techie so it is hard to try all of the tips for fixing things. This is a totally unacceptable situation and I shouldn't have to spend money to fix something that the biggest company on the planet messed up. It's impossible to get Microsoft to help and you can never be sure that the Microsoft representative isn't a fraud.

I have used Windows for quite some time, but I have never seen something on this level of disregard for the individuals and businesses that pay for their product. I hope there will be an option in the future to allow for 0 stars, and I think my stories below will make it clear why. On two separate occasions, Windows 10 began updating while I was in the middle of critical operations or attempting to get a heavy amount of work done.

I called and the guy was just disrespectful and unhelpful. I cannot even do anythings about it because he refused to give me his information as an employee. I told him my laptop is dead and it will not turn on after Window updates, and he told me to press the power button. Not once, repeatedly. He even said I am not understanding English. This is too disappointing. Is this customer service? I know I am a customer, but where is the service?

I have contacted Microsoft support to solve an issue, that was through the virtual assistant and I have asked to talk to a person who is real, after few minutes waiting, I got connected to an agent; "Please check my service request number." Agent have asked for remote virtual desktop access that I have agreed on, after we moved to the remote access he immediately ended the chat box, and rate himself as 5 stars, so this was not a customer feedback about this agent. He rated himself 5 stars, amazing! Unfortunately, your customer service remote support agent was very unprofessional and started opening my personal files which is not related to the problem that I reported, also without my permission. When I have asked him on the chatbox why he is opening my personal files, he didn’t respond and immediately turned off the session without writing a single word.

My computer was updated by Microsoft update. Their new involuntary Windows 10 update crashed my computer. Called tech support on 5/23/18 and they could not help me. Was told I would receive a call from a level 2 support person at 9:00 am on 5/24/18. I called back at 9:30 and was told he would call before 11:00 am. Here it is 4:30 in the afternoon, no call. No computer. I did a search and holy cow. My computer was wiped out, lost all data, photos. I can't replace the photos, and it's going to take a couple of weeks to get back most of the data. Thanks Microsoft, will not buy your computers anymore.

I have often had issues right after Microsoft installs update to my PC. The March 2018 update locked me out by killing my mouse and keyboard so I could not log in. I spent around $140 at Fry's to have my PC files backed up and everything wiped. We all thought I had been attacked by a virus. After spending days trying to get into my PC myself, and days waiting for Fry's to restore my PC, I had to reinstall all of my programs. I spent almost 2 hours on hold with Viper support only to find out that they were inundated with calls from others having the same issues after to Windows update.

I kept getting message to download Windows 10 from Microsoft on my computer. When I downloaded updates, my computer went blank, I lost all my files and computer does not work. I called Microsoft, they called twice but could not fix the problem due to Windows 10 updates. They do not want to help. It will cost me $225 to get it fix at the local computer store or Best Buy. This company is fraud and I will never buy anything from Microsoft. They have monopoly on the computers. Government should do something about this. My file number Microsoft gave me is **. I have filed a complaint with the FCC regarding this issue.

I recently swapped my father's hard drive. Moved over to a SSD. Creating a system image, and then trying to clone, failed so I just installed a fresh build of Windows thinking that since my father had already bought the full Windows 10 suite that it'd be no problem to get him set back up with all his apps and logins. Wrong. When I called into tech support, they wouldn't even allow me to talk to someone who could help me with my problem until I paid them $80! Which the rep at first told me (or at least I think that's what I heard and repeated back to him) was only $30, then he put the totals up on the screen, after I'd given him my card information, and lo and behold it was $80...

Windows 10 update on 5/18 rendered my Surface Pro 4 useless (no touchscreen/touchpad capability however keyboard still works). After hours on the phone with Microsoft tech they gave me an option of buying a replacement for 450 dollars for this problem that was "triggered" aka caused by their update. Before the update the computer was working with no issue at all. Why is it that I should have to purchase a replacement for them destroying my property? Never buying from Microsoft again.

So once again I have problems with Windows 10 and their constant updates required to fix issues that should have never been released in the first place. Update 1803 when it installed on May 11, 2018 rendered my laptop inoperable and has to date required 60 hours of useless Indian support that has not resolved my issues. Done with Microsoft and its Windows products, poor customer service and unresponsive executives. Moving on to MAC. Microsoft and looking at you in my rear view mirror.

Since Windows 365 was installed I have had nothing but problems with updates and Defender. If I am notified of an update, whether I leave it to update automatically or click update I am then told you couldn’t finish installing. I have had some prompts at shut down to reinstall which I have done but again am advised you couldn’t finish installing. With Defender, tonight I have had three messages to advise I am not secure, but no matter what I do I get a security acceptance am then advised I am not secure. I’ve tried Troubleshooter and everything else but nothing seems to work. As I am paying for 365 yearly. Now I expect some decent service.