This does imply that further updaters will appear in the reasonably near future to deliver the held-over security fixes, and hopefully others to address the recently identified vulnerabilities in Word.

For those who did install last week's update before it was withdrawn, Microsoft says "there's no urgent need to uninstall the patch", but it remains to be seen whether the replacement updater will work if the bogus release has already been applied, or if reinstallation of the suite is necessary.{moscomment}