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| From | Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> |
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| Subject | Re: Microsoft Office update question |
| Date | Mon, 10 Feb 2025 20:08:36 -0000 (UTC) |
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On 10 Feb 2025 at 19:50:38 GMT, "Amanda Ripanykhazov" <licensedtoquil@gmail.com> wrote: > I have had and used Word since the dawn of time It has never given any > problems. It just always seemed stable on my Mac. I often used to try to > update it, usually when some windows product was updating, but it never > seemed to update anything in Office > > Suddenly about 6 month ago I got an urgent message to update Microsoft > Office. Immediately I got scared. > > To me,it sounded more like Microsoft fishing for people who had lost > their product key, to stop Office from working until the user had bought > the license again: (I Haven't got the faintest idea where my product key > or license documentation is. I certainly havent even seen it for years) > > Now I am up to 4 supposedly urgent product updates! > > Does anyone know what is going on and have a view on whether I should > dare to let Microsoft update anything? I'm not sure if this helpful but here goes! I have a subscription to MS Office 365 as I use it on several devices and I'm not aware of a serial number. Presumably it's licensed via the email address I supplied at purchase time. All my updates to MS Office are done via an app called Microsoft AutoUpdate which resides in /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/MAU2.0 which, as you might expect, runs on system start/restart and presumably periodically. If you have got this app installed you could run it manually to double check if you really have any outstanding updates. -- Cheers, Alan
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Re: Microsoft Office update question TimS <tim@streater.me.uk> - 2025-02-10 22:00 +0000
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