Sunday, September 22, 2013

Another flawed Office update tells users to buy the suite

<p>Computerworld - Microsoft yesterday acknowledged yet another problem with its Sept. 10 updates, confirming that one of those fixes broke Office 2010 Starter Edition by changing the file associations of already-created documents.</p><p>"After installing this update, some users have reported they are unable to open files by double-clicking them, that the file type icons have changed, and that they must go to the application to open files," Microsoft's Office team said in a company blog post Wednesday.</p><p>Some customers, said Microsoft, were even told that they needed to buy a copy of the full-scale Office, which starts at $140 for Office Home &amp; Student 2013.</p><p>Naturally, that caused some customers to wig out, as their suite -- Office 2010 Starter Edition -- had come free with their PCs.</p><p><a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9242514/Another_flawed_Office_update_tells_users_to_buy_the_suite">Keep reading...</a></p>

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