Microsoft has officially acknowledged that issued last week, the security update for the editor of Excel spreadsheets contained an error. It leads to the fact that in the software menu for some users instead of the usual letters and the text is not in English.
The official blog Office Sustained Engineering explains that Microsoft has identified this failure as a purely cosmetic error caused last Tuesday issued a patch for a security system. However, some users of Excel 2003 and Excel 2002 have reported the appearance of text, not in the English language in the tool Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP) or Menu Programs and Features -> Installed Updates (Windows Vista and Windows 7) after installing the recent updates.
Is emphasized that this cosmetic bug does not affect the functionality available security updates. Microsoft advises users could discover this error, remove the installed updates, and then again reinstall it in manual mode with Service Download Center, where it is spaced by the same number. In addition, the Redmond company announced in the same blog on the availability of a patch for another "hole" that causes disruptions in the Office suite after you install update
KB977724. This solution is relevant for users of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2008 with Terminal Services.