Updating and configuring Office for my work machine was an annoying experience that makes me distrustful of it. I was trying to open a docx file from an email in Outlook. It’s the first time I’ve tried to use Office since getting the machine from my employer, and it inflicted the following disjointed workflow on me:

1. Run the auto-updater.
2. Quit Outlook. What? Okay. I hope it remembers to open my file when we’re all done, because I’ll probably forget
3. Let the updates download. I guess I’ll open Chrome and futz around on the internets
4. Close Firefox. Close Chrome. Close Microsoft Updater. Oh what now? I can’t browse the web while waiting for it to install updates? Okay. Fine. Whatever. It’s funny that it has to close the updater to install the updates… Wait. What is it doing to my web browsers? Why does it need to touch Chrome or Firefox? What mystery meat is it stuffing into /Library or ~/Library?
5. Watch updates install. Slowly.
6. Updater completes and closes itself. The file I probably wanted to see is nowhere to be found. What was I doing again? I was reading the news. Wait, no, that was what I was doing while it updates. What were the updates for? Something in Outlook… I want a sandwich.