Word crashing under any circumstances is a serious matter but not apparently serious enough for Microsoft to be honest with their customers. “Word crashes when deleting AUTONUMLGL field in Track Changes mode.” Just one example, among, many of a secret bug in Office 2010.

SP2 includes all security patches released until April 2013.

For example, there’s a patch for the Office 2010 iFilter Pack and Access 2010 Runtime that includes both past patches and ‘previously unreleased fixes’, yet Microsoft fix list has no mention of iFilter patches at all. The list of fixed bugs is hardly complete. Microsoft call these secret bug fixes ‘previously unreleased fixes’. The list doesn’t tell you a lot beyond a short description with no Knowledge Base references. There’s a list of fixed bugs, but not on a web page, instead an Excel worksheet. This policy continues with Office 2010 Service Pack 2.

It’s an old trick that Microsoft has done for well over a decade but no-one except Office Watch seems to notice, let alone care. Microsoft has released another service pack for Office 2010 and associated programs like SharePoint 2010 with the usual trick of patching software bugs that Microsoft had kept secret from customers. Past patches and fixes to ‘secret’ bugs in an update to Office 2010 and related programs.

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