[j0nkatz]

Anyone know if it updates the binaries to universal?

[mac128k-1984]

straight from Microsoft
"This update fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. This update also fixes issues in Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac and includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates."

I don't see any reference to UB so I woul say no.

Plus here's MS' FAQ

[CharlesS]

It's a security update. That's not going to update the app to a Universal Binary.

Unfortunately, the Microsoft Office applications are - even in 2006 - CFM apps. That means that they'll need to be converted to Mach-O in order to be made UB. It also means that the current versions were probably built using CodeWarrior, so that'll all have to move over to Xcode as well. It'll be a big job to make those apps universal, and I guarantee MS will charge you for it.

[dru]

There's a security update to v.X as well.

Microsoft Office v. X 10.1.7 Security Update

[Raining Down in Texas]

Anyone else having problems with PowerPoint on an Intel Mac after this update? Word and Excel work just fine, but PowerPoint crashes immediately after the splash screen. I have tried trashing its preference files without success. The Console shows:

Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x00000000

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 <<00000000>> 0x00000000 0 + 0
1 LaunchCFMApp 0xb8067e5d 0xb8000000 + 425565
2 LaunchCFMApp 0xb81147c6 CallPPCFunctionAtAddressInt + 86420
3 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808192e 0xb8000000 + 530734
4 LaunchCFMApp 0xb807b116 0xb8000000 + 504086
5 LaunchCFMApp 0xb808f47a 0xb8000000 + 586874
6 LaunchCFMApp 0xb80e3f07 spin_lock_wrapper + 2511

UPDATE:
After I posted, Word started crashing also. At this point I figured that Rosetta had become hosed somehow and rebooted. After the reboot, both Word and PowerPoint appear to be working normally.