https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/11/now-its-offices-turn-to-have-a-load-of-patches-pulled/
By Peter Bright
Ars Technica
11/20/2018
After endless difficulties with the Windows 10 October 2018 update—finally
re-released this month with the data-loss bug fixed—it seems that now it's the
Office team's turn to release some updates that need to be un-released.
On November's Patch Tuesday two weeks ago, Microsoft released a bunch of
updates for Office to update its Japanese calendars. In December 2017, Emperor
Akihito announced that he would abdicate and that his son Naruhito would take
his role as emperor. Each emperor has a corresponding era name, and calendars
must be updated to reflect that new name. The Office patches offer updates to
handle this event.
Two of these updates, KB2863821 and KB4461522, both for Office 2010, are
apparently very broken, causing application crashes. The company has suspended
delivery of the patches, but the problem is so severe that Microsoft is
recommending that anyone who has installed the updates already should uninstall
them pronto (see instructions for KB2863821 here and for KB4461522 here).
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