Some folks are have issues with Windows 8 (all editions) and Office 2013 x86 and x64 updates.
The main reason for this issue is for some reason the DEFAULT HOST setting by Microsoft has been corrupted.
Microsoft default setting is -autofind....
not to fix this I have written a very simply copy and paste
win key + x
select command prompt as admin
then copy and paste between the ********** into an click enter
all this does is reset Windows 8 and Office 2013 host back to default
fix-updates.bat
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slmgr -ckms
pause
cscript "%PROGRAMFILES(x86)%\Microsoft Office\Office15\ospp.vbs" /remhst
pause
cscript "%PROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Office\Office15\ospp.vbs" /remhst
pause
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