Microsoft pulls buggy Office 2010 January updates

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Microsoft has pulled its first updates of the year for Office 2010 after reports, mostly from Japan, that they have been breaking Excel.Japanese language blogs have reported that after installing the non-security updates, users were seeing messages that Excel cannot be opened and that the spreadsheet app was sometimes freezing."For the Y2K event, there was world-wide recognition of the upcoming change, resulting in governments and software vendors beginning to work on solutions for that problem several years before January 1, 2000.Microsoft included a special registry in the Windows 10 version 1803 to help developers spot problems before the change.Malware gangs add mouse-hover downloads to their arsenal of social engineering tricks to infect PCs.

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