Microsoft admitted that it had released an incorrect security patch for excel.

According to foreign media reports, Microsoft has been forced to admit that there is an error in a security patch released for the Excel software, causing some users to display non-English text.

Microsoft engineers said in the office sustained engineering blog that this is a "decorative error" caused by the security patch released by Microsoft on Tuesday ". This post says Microsoft has received reports from users in Excel 2003 and Excel 2002. After installing the patch kb978471 or kb978474, they added or deleted the program tool or installed the update window (Vista, win7) non-English text is displayed.

The text of this updated question is displayed in simplified Chinese. It is important that this decoration problem does not affect the UPDATE function. All security patches in this Security Bulletin (MS10-017) are included in this update.


Microsoft told the affected users that there are two steps to bypass this issue: first, the user must uninstall the update and then install an update of the correct version from the Microsoft download center.


The day before the message appears, microsoft acknowledges that users who use Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 with terminal services will encounter an office application crash after installing a non-security patch numbered kb977724. Microsoft also provides hot patches to solve this problem in this podcast.