Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Invalid XML, the view cannot be loaded.

I had a customer call me to say that his computer seemed to freeze for him, so he did a hard restart on it. Once it booted back up, Microsoft Outlook 2010 would not start but give the following error message. Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. Invalid XML, the view cannot …

Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.

I have a customer who is getting the following error message in Office 2013. “Updates for Office are ready to be applied, but are blocked by one or more apps.”   The problem is when the Update Now button is clicked, you get a notice saying you’re up to date! Restarting the program will bring …