Re: KB 907417 & 908002



Windows Update and Office Update are two entirely different things. Office
service packs are always for a specific version.

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"David Thielen" <thielen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:2A2C1A00-4B5E-4FFF-89E1-0F2420BDE5CD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi;
>
> Just to confirm, if I have run the latest windows update and it shows no
> updates for Word, then the fixes in KB907417 should be on my machine -
> correct?
>
> I have never run the fix in KB907417 and on my dev machine it has version
> 7.10.5077.0 but my test system, which shows no pending office updates, has
> 7.10.3191.0. So it looks like I do have to install it.
>
> Do we run this same update for Word 2002 and Word 2000? Or is there a
> different update in their cases?
>
> And for our customers, I assume we have to point them at this fix? Or will
> it be included in the Windows update soon? Or can we include it in our
> install? Does it just update this one dll?
>
> For KB908002, this is added to the setup program. However, we use WIX (the
> official Microsoft installer) for our setup. How do we add this to our
setup,
> and what does it do?
>
> thanks - dave
>

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