Microsoft Patches: Making The Problem Worse? - Small Business Computing

Microsoft Patches: Making The Problem Worse?

Mar 15, 2010
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PCWorld: Microsoft Patches – Making The Problem Worse?

If you’ve recently installed patches and updates for Microsoft’s Office programs, you may now be experiencing new problems that will require you to uninstall the original patches and install new ones.


“Microsoft confirmed today that a security update for its Excel spreadsheet had turned English text in an important Windows tool into Chinese.

The admission was the second in the past two days from Microsoft’s Office team of a gaffe involving a recent security update.”

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