Office 2013 missing after June 11 Microsoft auto upates

. You can absolutely do both kinds of updating with the C2R version. The reason why I want to is, as I said, we do not know how long this will go on. I do not want to go for too long a time without the big updates that came along with SP1 for Office that enhanced its security. I do not want to leave my system open that long. So I am going to get my C2R install up to version 15.0.4569.1507 which includes the SP for Office.

Do a little checking around and you will find out how you can do it too. You just have to refuse to be limited by the rules. :-)

Caine: you've already done the research and confirmed a method that worked for you in the real world.  How about sharing with the rest of us. Even if it is confirmation of the methods provided by Susan. That is the intent of this forum. Users sharing knowledge to help other users.

How about since we are really going to take a turn away now to a complete new subject, we start another thread and discuss it there? Leave this for just the problem with Office right now. When I first asked, it was on-topic bcuz it was a simple question that was intended to get around this problem. But it has taken on a life of its own now and deserves a thread of its own.

It's not thinking outside the box, it's just understanding that click to run is a 'build version' is all. This is merely how C2R works.

I was being nice by complimenting you. But it is thinking outside the box because it is not the straight line thinking that you expressed earlier when saying basically that you had no control over the update process. In fact, you can completely control the update process if you truly do understand the code. You can also get everything in an MSI update out and installed onto your computer so that you C2R version now has SP1 or whatever update you want. People are locked into thinking that just because you have a C2R install that you are dependent on that internet stream and that you cannot take that C2R version and have a standalone version that you can update on your own if you want to do so. That is linear thinking. It limits what you can do. Even programmers, who create the software are often surprised at what you can do with their work to make it so much more versatile. So you may wish to go on believing that C2R and MSI installs cannot be compatible with each other, but that would be wrong. MSI tools can be "unwrapped" and applied to local C2R installs and they work just fine. This C2R **** is just an effort to try to control what we can do with software and for anyone willing to put in the time, it can be worked around. There is a lot more detail that can be gotten into, but suffice it to say, C2R is not magic nor is it impossible to make it work with the same tools as you use for MSI installs. And in fact, what we have seen ever since this C2R idea started taking off is that it is not the rainbows and unicorns that software developers thought it would be. So you may think that it isn't outside the box thinking, but when you look at the opinions of software developers and those that just take their word for things and do not get in there and actually work directly with the code to find answers for themselves, you see that all these people are just repeating what they hear and it is true linear thinking. To come up with ways to do what they said can't be done is thinking outside the box. That doesn't matter what the code is. it has to do with what we are told we can and can't do and then finding a way to get around it.

. You can absolutely do both kinds of updating with the C2R version. The reason why I want to is, as I said, we do not know how long this will go on. I do not want to go for too long a time without the big updates that came along with SP1 for Office that enhanced its security. I do not want to leave my system open that long. So I am going to get my C2R install up to version 15.0.4569.1507 which includes the SP for Office.

Do a little checking around and you will find out how you can do it too. You just have to refuse to be limited by the rules. :-)

Caine: you've already done the research and confirmed a method that worked for you in the real world.  How about sharing with the rest of us. Even if it is confirmation of the methods provided by Susan. That is the intent of this forum. Users sharing knowledge to help other users.

Good point caine. Yes, that is a better way of putting it than my original focus on accountants.

Sorry Susan (fortunately you are not one of the MS "bean-counters" <grin>), then you would really have reason to be offended. I was trying to make the point that allowing any extreme position is not good for business. It just seems to me that for that last several years MS has been revenue driven, more than useful new customer features

Were existing customers "happy" with the "new and improve features":

• the Ribbon in Office 2007?
• "disposable" Product Key Card licenses in 2010 (when it came time to transfer the license to a new machine! Rude SURPRISE! )?
• elimination of upgrade type licenses in 2010?
• the change in 2013 licensing to 1 computer and no transfer rights (they did have to retroactively change that last one)?
• Metro in Win 8.0?
• Forced default to Skydrive in Win 8
• Forced default to Skydrive in Office 2013
• Forced default requiring MS Online account to install Office 2013
• Forced default requiring MS Online account to install Win 8 (yes I know there are some workarounds, but average user is not aware of them)
• Office 365 subscriptions (OK, I'll grant, there has been relatively little push back from the general public on that one.  But you can't deny that from a business point of view, 365 subscriptions are all about generating a consistent (increased) revenue stream, rather than "bursts" of revenue that are typical with upgrade of local install licenses.)