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When I opened up my laptop this morning (8/16/14) there was a pop-up on the screen telling me there was an update available for Microsoft Word Starter 2010 and asking me if I wanted to download it. It did not look like the typical Windows or Office update notification. I closed the pop-up and opened Windows update and ran it. There were some updates available, but none that said they were for Word Starter. IS there a new Update for Word Starter or is this someone trying to get me to download a virus?
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Microsoft has posted a Knowledge Base article describing and explaining this popup and providing a solution. Find it at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3016799.
Hi everyone,
We heard back from the product group. The dialog is expected for a legitimate Office 2010 starter update. It appears for click to run scenarios where the path is missing a piece of information between the build that the user is running on and the latest available build.
The august update that was pulled is a Windows update, not an Office update.
Thanks!
DK - MSFT support
All the questions/problems reported in this thread are related to the legitimacy of this pop-up window. In the circumstances where MVPs are incapable of clarifying the questions, it is Microsoft's business to clarify all the questions and fix all the problems reported in this thread. Simply launching another thread didn't help at all.
So your post of Oct.30, 2014 didn't answer my question at all except for citing DKuy's sentences in his post, even though you tried to do so in the first place.
All the questions/problems reported in this thread are related to the legitimacy of this pop-up window. In the circumstances where MVPs are incapable of clarifying the questions, it is Microsoft's business to clarify all the questions and fix all the problems reported in this thread. Simply launching another thread didn't help at all.
I did not imply that. I merely quoted the information from a Microsoft Employee in the Post that is marked as the answer to this thread.
As suggested earlier, anyone who has a particular problem should start a new thread and give full details.