Yesterday, Microsoft announced updates for Office 2004 and Office vX. The updates also apparently showed up in AutoUpdate.
Today, Microsoft announced that everyone who got a notice of an Office update and installed it… didn’t REALLY. The updates were posted in error. There’s no actual updates. So everyone who saw the updates show up in AutoUpdate, or downloaded them from the Microsoft website via the above links that no longer work can just uninstall them.
Later today, Microsoft confirmed that, sorry, there’s no way to uninstall an Office update. So the part of the notice that says “uninstall them” is a mistake.
Later than the previous confirmation of the previous notice about the previous updates, Microsoft announced that those responsible for the unintentional posting of the security updates for Office have been sacked.
Shortly after the announcement about the sacking of those responsible for the previous unintentional posting of the security updates for Office, Microsoft stated that there were no sackings, as that would be considered “responsibility” (albeit at a very low level) and that announcing that there were sackings, was a mistake.