Microsoft Releases Patch for its Patch

Microsoft Releases Patch for its Patch

IT company Microsoft has used IT Support in order to get an IT security update to one of its patches. The problem was that its IT product, Excel, had turned English text in an important Windows tool into Chinese. This happened only two days after the patch release on Tuesday. The two updates Microsoft referenced, KB978471 and KB978474, were the patch collections for Excel 2002 and Excel 2003.

The IT company wrote in a blog post that "We have received reports from some of our Excel 2003 and Excel 2002 customers that after installing update KB978471 or KB978474, they are seeing non-English text in the 'Add or Remove Programs' tool (Win[dows] XP) or the 'Programs and Features' --> 'Installed Updates' view (Vista, Win[dows] 7). If English text ... is a requirement, there is a two-part workaround available." This means that users would have to uninstall Tuesday's Excel update, then download and install a "no errors" version.