Re: Is MS giving away Outlook?

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If all those updates were installed on 24 Sept-07, the machine was seriously unpatched and vulnerable. (Some of them were released months ago.) How long had this machine been online in the unpatched state, Lynda? Was Automatic Updates disabled? Is it enable now?

With all due respect, if it's not your machine you can't tell us anything definitive about the possibility of OL 2002 having been installed on the machine previously. If the machine's owner isn't forthcoming, either you'd have to contact Dell or just drop the "Why?" issue.

Best of luck.
--
~PA Bear

Lynda wrote:
21 updates installed on 24 Sept (list is below). Vista was pre-installed on
this Inspiron and I don't think Dell supplied any trial version of Office or
Works. The computer is still under warranty.

I've removed Outlook and now Office upgrades are no longer being offered.
I'm intrigued about why a functioning version of Outlook 2002 should pop
into program files folder without any other Office component detectable.
This is not my pc so I can't say what might have been done to it but I can't
imagine how anyone could have installed Outlook on its own. OUTLOOK.EXE was
properly there in Program Files\Office10 folder with all its bits and
pieces.

I've heard about Boltzman brains so I guess in an old enough universe
anything can occur; even a working Outlook appearing out of nowhere.

Thank you for your response and, unless anyone else reports this, I consider
the topic closed.

List of KBs installed on 24 Sept-07 (in reverse order of installation that
date):
937143
936021
905866
938194
933360
939159
933579
935807
938979
936782
938123
938127
929916
935280
937077
929123
931213
932471
936825
936824
931621

<PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I allowed some updates to Vista Home yesterday and Outlook 2002 SP3
appeared!

You first posted the above on 25 Sept-07. What updates were installed on
24 Sept-07?

How to read the Windowsupdate.log file
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902093

Did you upgrade to Vista Home Premium? If not, was a free-trial version
of MS Office or MS Works preinstalled on the machine when you bought it
and is the machine still under warranty?
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~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE, OE, Security, Shell/User)
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
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Lynda wrote:
Ah PA you may be referring to the notorious update that several in this
group claim not to understand. I was not offered and do not have this
update. I must assume that some deamon snuck in at night and gave me
Outlook 2002. I would have preferred the deamon to have left me a much
later version <g>.

"PA Bear" <PABearMVP@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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There is no way that OL 2002 was installed by Office 2003 SP3.
--
~PA Bear

Lynda wrote:
Hello Mow,
Outlook 2002 appeared on my system yesterday after doing updates.
Never
was
there before which made me wonder if MS is now giving it away. So
that's
what it is and I'm not sure what to do with it. Wierd don't you think?
"MowGreen [MVP]" <mowgreen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eZmsd76$HHA.748@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Lynda,

First you state that Office has never been on the system and then you
state that you're going to uninstall Outlook, which is a component of
Office. So, which is it ?

Lynda wrote:
I allowed some updates to Vista Home yesterday and Outlook 2002 SP3
appeared! Office has never been on this pc nor any readers or
anything
else showing in Programs and Features. Today I got offered 11
updates
for Office XP and Outlook. Can anyone think of a cause for this? If
not
I'll uninstall Outlook and hope the updates go away.

.

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