Microsoft pulls Visual Studio update as it's crashing PCs

Posted on Wednesday, February 11 2015 @ 14:00 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

WinBeta reports Microsoft has pulled the KB3001652 update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime as the patch is causing significant issues. Users are complaining about installations that never finish, leaving the update system running indefinitely, even after a reboot. Visual Studio users are advised to skip the update until Microsoft offers a solution.

The update was intended to install the 2010 tools for Office Runtime while updating the premature shut down thread in the WPF user interface, fix the lag occurring on touch enabled when shutting down Visual Studios that use the WPF, and address the incorrectly displaying installation Trust Prompt "Unknown Publisher" even when the publisher is fully trusted.

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