I am using a click-to-run version of Office 2013 on my 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 system.

I do not allow Windows to update my system automatically.  Unless there is a good reason to do it more frequently, I use Windows Update every month to update my system manually.

For the last three months (February, March and April 2015), Windows Update has offered KB3001652 (update for Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime) as an important update.  At first, I didnt know why this update was being offered.  I dont have Visual Studio 2010 installed.  But I later learnt that Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime comes as part of Office 2013, so KB3001652 appears to be a legitimate update for Office 2013.  However, I have still not installed the update.

I have the following queries:

• Having installed a click-to-run version of Office 2013, I expected ALL updates to Office 2013 to be done automatically in the background.  In fact, Im sure I read somewhere that no updates would come through the Windows Update route.  So why has this update come through Windows Update?

• Does anyone know whether the KB3001652 update to Office 2013 will eventually be done as an automatic update in the background?  If you inspect the April updates to Office 2013 in support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3050766, the highest numbered individual update is still only KB2965279, so it might be a few months yet before KB3001652 is included (assuming it will be, of course).

• Edited by Tiberius_Claudius Wednesday, April 29, 2015 1:43 PM

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime is used for solutions that are built by using Visual Studio 2010. Probably, you have some add-ins which might need this update.

Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Office Runtime is installed automatically when you install office 2013 and office 2010, however, this update might not come along with Office udpates. Especially for click to run version of Office.

Aravindhan Battepati