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Microsoft tells Windows 10 users to uninstall Office

  • 9 December 2014
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By Gregg Keizer  Computerworld | Dec 9, 2014 12:43 PM PT
 

Office conflicts with one of Patch Tuesday's security updates, manager cautions on Twitter

 
Microsoft today took the unusual step of telling users running Windows 10's Technical Preview to uninstall Office before applying one of December's security updates.
"We just made a tough call after working through the night that I thought I should share with you," wrote Gabe Aul, the engineering general manager for Microsoft's operating system group, in a four-part Twitter understatement Tuesday.
"We have a security update going out today, and the installer fails on 9879 if Office is installed," Aul continued. "Rather than rolling a new fix (losing several days in the process) we're going to publish it as is. The workaround is painful: uninstall Office, install the hotfix, reinstall Office. Sorry. We're working hard to fix."
 
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Yes very true good thing I don't have Office installed on my 2 VM's!
 
Thanks,
 
Daniel 😉
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Well Good information and bad information. Looks like I'll be uninstalling Office.
 
 
 
Thanks Jasper ..good fine!:D
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@ wrote:
Well Good information and bad information. Looks like I'll be uninstalling Office.
 
 
 
Thanks Jasper ..good fine!:D
On Windows 10 Preview?
 
Daniel
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Yes Daniel I've got MS 2007 Office on there!
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@ wrote:
Yes Daniel I've got MS 2007 Office on there!
It's so messy to uninstall Office. :(
 
Daniel
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Hi!
 
 
Yes I'm not looking forward to it either!. I've got the Windows Preview installed on my old Dell Computer and kept the Programs with that install.
 
Oh well!!:D
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Yet Another Update for Windows 10 Build 9879, But This One's a Doozy (Updated)

 
Still no real fix for Explorer crashes
 
http://winsupersite.com/windows-10/yet-another-update-windows-10-build-9879-ones-doozy-updated
 
Daniel :@
 
It says Office 2013 so maybe not 2007 @ ????
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Great Daniel!
 
Thanks for the information!
 
I am getting alot Explorer crashes. Don't know if it's related to Windows Preview or not!
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