"Users who chose to grab the Windows 10 Technical Preview are now stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. "There are always upsides and downsides to being on the bleeding edge," Storms said in an interview conducted via instant messaging. That update, pegged as MS14-080, patched 14 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE) 11, the browser bundled with the OS.Īndrew Storms, vice president of security services at New Context, weighed in on Aul's odd workaround.
Several people chimed in on Aul's Twitter feed to say that they had tried the update before uninstalling Office and had no problems.Īccording to Microsoft, only one of today's seven security updates was to be applied to Windows 10's preview. It will work for many, no harm if not," he tweeted. ( Computerworld was unable to find an associated page on Microsoft's support site that matched KB3022827.) He also partly retracted his advice to uninstall Office: "Please try to install KB3022827 before the workaround to uninstall Office first. Somewhat later, Aul identified the update as KB3022827, the Knowledge Base identifier displayed in Windows Update on the preview. Aul's mention of "9879" referred to the latest "build" of the preview Microsoft issued Build 9879 four weeks ago.
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