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Presumably, the Office installer can modify/update the Microsoft Silverlight.plugin (which is installed in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/), which Safari and Chrome could potentially be using.
It's primarily just a precaution against updating files which an application is actively using.
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After further investigation, it looks like it's actually the fact ...
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Since your install didn't complete, it's entirely likely you still have a Mountain Lion recovery HD and can simply wipe the entire drive and start over with Mountain Lion to ensure it's really a hardware issue (or rule out a hardware issue).
OS X Mountain Lion: Erase and reinstall OS X - http://support.apple.com/kb/ph11273
Just power it off, press the ...
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If you haven't already made backups, you can start up from the recovery partition and save a disk image of the main OS X volume (or other volumes you use) to a different drive in Disk Utility.
The first thing I'd try would be to do an upgrade install of 10.7 by choosing Reinstall OS X without erasing anything first. If that wouldn't work, I'd do a clean ...
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Hint
Command-Option-O-F alone, immediately after the startup sound:
presents an Open Firmware prompt, only on Macs that use Open Firmware
does not reset NVRAM.
At an Open Firmware prompt you might enter a command such as reset-nvram – but it's not the usual approach.
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Use Command-Option-P-R as instructed in Apple's article: About NVRAM and ...
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