Today, Wed Nov 13th my PC said it have updates to install. 24 in total for Win 7 SP1 32Bit with Office 2013 previously fully patched up.
Following a restart and opening Outlook I found outlook would open but just for a short time it then said something like it had found a problem and needed to close. Clicked OK and tried again.
No luck same thing.
Checked for other updates - 3. Tried them, no improvement.
Did system restore to get back working. OK now if sluggish.
It looks like one or more of those updates screws up Outlook 2013.
regards
Phil