It is now the turn of the Office to release a series of patches

After endless difficulties with the Windows 10 October 2018 update – finally republished this month with the data loss bug fixed – it now appears that the Office team is releasing some updates to release.

In the November patch, Tuesday, two weeks ago, Microsoft released a set of updates that allow Office to update its Japanese calendars. In December 2017, Emperor Akihito announced that he would abdicate and that his son Naruhito would assume his role as emperor. Each emperor has a corresponding pen name and the calendars must be updated to reflect that new name. Office patches provide updates to handle this event.

Two of these updates, KB2863821 and KB4461522, both for Office 2010, are reported to be severely damaged, resulting in a crash in the application. The company has suspended delivery of the patches, but the problem is so severe that Microsoft recommends that anyone who has already installed the updates uninstall them immediately (see the instructions for KB2863821 here and KB4461522).

One-Click Office version users (used by Office 365 subscriptions) should not have to perform additional steps because Office in a single process should undo the fix automatically. Manual removal is required only for perpetually licensed Office versions.

Another fix, KB4461529, is also recognized as problematic; specifically, Outlook 2010 64-bit crashes on startup. The instructions for this fix are different and rather unsatisfactory. Unlike the other two patches, KB4461529 is a security update. Therefore, its removal is not recommended because of the vulnerability that it would expose. Instead, Microsoft suggests that Outlook users use Outlook Web Access to access their mail. Since this particular incident seems to occur immediately upon startup of the application, one may wonder exactly how it was delivered. even the most superficial tests would have shown the problem.