“A security update issued Tuesday for the Mac version of Microsoft Office was posted in error, the software maker said. The company encouraged consumers to uninstall the patch, which is still being tested,” Ina Fried reports for CNET News.
Fried reports, “‘Due to human error, they were accidentally published to the public Web sites before our full testing release process was complete,’ a Microsoft security official said Wednesday on the company’s Security Response Center blog. ‘As soon as we discovered the error, we moved quickly to address it and remove the pre-release binaries from our public sites.'”
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MacDailyNews Take: A fish rots from the head down.
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Ahh, if only there were some kind of program that I could have set to have automaticaly backed up my Office 2004 file so I could “go back in time” and just restore the previous image…