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Software is a cruel mistress, and no one knows that better than the fine folks at Microsoft’s Mac BU. They work hard to bring us the best Mac software they can, and yet there are some in the Mac community that won’t cut them a break just considering they work for Microsoft.

That’s why I feel for them, given the flaw that has been found in the Office 2008 for Mac installer. It would seem that the Office installer incorrectly sets some permissions on files, allowing a second local user on your Mac, i.e. a user other than the admin user installing the software, to modify the Office

apps and some supporting libraries. that, of course, is not a good thing but the Mac BU has posted instructions on their blog to fix that via some Terminal commands. They additionally promise that an update to Office will be coming along shortly which will fix the problem for those of users who aren’t comfortable in the Terminal.

A great response to an unlucky mistake, but something tells me TUAW commenters will not be kind to our friends at the Mac BU.

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Orginal post by Scott McNulty