Microsoft has a fix for Office 2016 issues after faulty update broke Word, Excel and Outlook

There is not long left for Office 2016 in terms of official support from Microsoft, but it felt like adding salt to the wound when a recent update caused Word, Excel and Outlook to stop working. Microsoft is certainly no stranger to breaking Windows with problematic updates, but with the KB5002700 security update released earlier this week, it was Office 2016 that was affected. So severe were the problems caused, Microsoft has been forced to release an out-of-band fix. See also: When the KB5002700 update was released, the aim was to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that existed in… [Continue Reading]