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Another botched Microsoft patch: Office 365 ProPlus says 'Something went wrong'

2014-07-28 13:22:53| InfoWorld: Top News

This is the second month in a row where we've seen a botched automatic Office patch. As is the case with so many Office patches these days, there's no KB number and no warning that a patch is being applied.

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Microsoft botched all aspects of Exchange outage response

2014-06-27 13:39:10| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft blew it Tuesday when its Exchange Online hosted email service went dark for much of the business day, an expert said. But he wasn't referring to Exchange's technical failure. "Three hundred and sixty-four days of excellent service can be undone on the 365th if a company doesn't communicate effectively," said Gene Grabowski, senior strategist at Levick, a Washington, D.C. firm that specializes in crisis communications.

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Another botched patch: Error 30145-4 plagues Office 2013 Click-to-Run

2014-06-16 13:22:58| InfoWorld: Top News

Microsoft has admitted that one of last week's Black Tuesday patches broke Office 2013 Click-to-Run on "less than 1% of our user base." Details are lacking, but the solution is clear: If you can't get Office 2013 to run,

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GM fined $34M for botched ignition switch recall, also recalls more vehicles

2014-05-19 03:54:00| Canadian Plastics Headlines

General Motors has been fined the maximum penalty of $35 million by U.S. safety regulators for delays in recalling small cars with faulty ignition switches that are linked to at least 13 deaths, and is also issuing another huge recall over an...

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