“A security update issued Tuesday for the Mac version of Microsoft Office was posted in error, the software maker said. The company encouraged consumers to uninstall the patch, which is still being tested,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
Fried reports, “‘Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public Web sites before our full testing release process was complete,’ a Microsoft security official said Wednesday on the company’s Security Response Center blog. ‘As soon as we discovered the error, we moved quickly to address it and remove the pre-release binaries from our public sites.'”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: A fish rots from the head down.
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Un-fscking believable!!
Oh, so THAT’S what that smell is. I just thought someone had taken a zune.
Un-install Word. Problem solved!
Counter-intelligent
Can any company, even Microcrap, suck this bad?
Just how am I supposed to unistall this “patch”?
Strange…
I’m glad to be still using Word X, instead of 2004.
Listen up. Get Neo office for free or iWork for about $80 and forget MS.
These people are trapped in a bureaucratic molasses that is as bad as most governmental agencies.
60,000 employees. I can see 1000 burning and shipping the disks, 10,000 doing whatever else needs to be done, but 60,000?
Thank you Jeff.
That’s exactly what I am going to do.
GODBYE MS OFFICE!
MW: ‘over’. It’s over now, MS.
ditto,
How do I uninstall this patch?
They zuned me again.
Dude, you just got zuned.
ROTFFL!!!!
NEO OFFICE, no x11, uses your fonts, works, and is free. Pages is cheep and offers some nice features so fergit Orafice fergit MiKro$uck, be gone evil empire, I shun you forever! HAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!
Due to human error, they were accidentally published…
What the hell? This is at least the second time something was accidentally released before it was supposed to be.
This is not human error, this is organizational incompetence, a direct result of the massive numbers of crap employees they have hired in recent years. The idiots far outnumber the smart ones.
Microsoft is totally thrashing and screwing up these days, I love it!
Please, please, please Ballmer, stay in complete control of Microsoft! Let your clueless ego run riot.
You are the only one who can ensure Microsoft is driven firmly into the ground and becomes the biggest corporate flame-out in software history.
This proves it!!
Microsoft has a sense of humor!!!!!
And apparently it is the only sense they have…
Yep, that’ll do it…NeoOffice is the bomb, and MSOffice will never be on my Mac again. AppZapped it a second ago…I feel better already. Somehow, … cleaner.
MDN Word: “see” I can see clearly now, the crap is gone.
Oh, and Apple has never made a mistake, ever.
Correction
They have a Stench of humor (remember the zune)
Anybody got any idea how to “uninstall” the update? In typical fashion, the Microsoft warning says to uninstall it but doesn’t say how to do it.
I hope there comes a day when I don’t have to use their pissant products.
Idiots.
Oh, and one more thing….
This is shockingly crappy.
All this “forget MicroShaft” stuff is great, and I wish I could, BUT – we absolutely MUST have complete Word compatibility, no formatting loss, etc. Until/unless NeoOffice, etc., documents are 100% compatible with Word documents, maintaining formatting exactly when sent and received via email attachments, i.e., documents created in NeoOffice or Word go back and forth completely seamlessly, there is no way we can forget M$…
I have NeoOffice to try out, but can’t spare the time to test the document formating. If someone knows more about these things, please post…
MDN Magic Word, “hospital”, as in, “Using M$ stuff makes me want to be admitted to one, hospital, that is.”
Oh fsck. I got zuned allright. So how am I suposed to unstall this pathc?
“urges users to uninstall patch”
I didn’t think there were any Urge users. <rimshot>
Crappingly shocky as well.
Microsoft sucks and their MBU sucks. These kinds of errors are absolutely unacceptable for a company of their so-called stature. I’ve bought my last piece of Microsoft software, I can guarantee you that much.
To uninstall this patch, go to your Applications folder and drag the Microsoft Office 2004 folder to the trash. Then, Finder>Empty Trash. Problem solved.
They actually test stuff? Who grew a conscience overnight?
I own MS Office 2004 from my old Power Mac G4 (dual 1.25 MDD) that I used to have. I wasn’t about to let that piece of Zune software touch my new Mac Pro. I uninstalled your pathetic software a long time ago, MS.