Latest Microsoft Update - Outlook 2013 Folder Pane blank

[#1]

I'm still getting calls about this.  Apart from the symptom mentioned in the title, you may have any of the following symptoms:

• Documents and spreadsheets appear unreadable because they open with the wrong program.


• You get messages about activating a version of Office you didn't have in the first place.


• Updates appear to install repeatedly.

[#2]

I think Microsoft have now fixed the updates being repeatedly offered and installed despite already being installed.

[#3]

Interesting; I hid them and they're now not showing as hidden. And a recheck doesn't bring them up, though they're installed (4 times) according to the history.

[#4]

These  cover it
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2013/09/11/outlook-folder-pane-disap...
http://blogs.technet.com/b/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2013/09/12/september-2013-public-upd...

[#5]

This is an account of the problem I have seen in person:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/KB2589275-Update-Breaking-Down-File-Associations-on-Windows-7-382728....

[#6]

What a mess!
 

[#7]

I have now seen three computers, all running the bundled Starter edition of Microsoft Office 2010 on Windows 7, that were messed-up by last week's update.  If you did not know how to get out of the mess you might have been lead to buy a full copy of Office.  Accidentally-on-purpose Microsoft?
System Restore, if available, is the easiest way out of the mess.  The bad updates no longer re-install.

[#8]

It's not Microsoft's month is it?
Zero day exploit for IE.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24142934