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Microsoft to expand document formats
News An initial translator for Word was released earlier this year, while those for PowerPoint and Excel are expected to be completed by the end of the year. The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a... [21 May 2007]
Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News The remaining zero-day vulnerabilities for which fixes are now available are in Internet Explorer and Word, Microsoft said. The Word flaw had also been used in cyber attacks, it said. Most of the vulnerabilities addressed by the fixes can only be... [09 May 2007]
Zero-day attack strikes Office
News When a user opens a rigged Word file, it may corrupt system memory in such a way that an attacker could gain complete control over the PC, Microsoft said in a security advisory. A new, yet-to-be-patched security hole in Word is being used in... [16 Feb 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last year, relying on three partners to develop the code that lets a user open and save word-processor documents in two different formats. The plug-in will work with Microsoft's Word application... [02 Feb 2007]
Phone-crashing bugs found in Windows Mobile
News In addition to the Windows Mobile issues, Microsoft is also investigating a report of yet another vulnerability in Word. Symantec and the French Security Incident Response Team, or FrSirt, say they have spotted a fifth zero-day flaw in the word... [01 Feb 2007]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News Other features unique to Office 2008 for Mac include an improved ability to do page layout work within Microsoft Word, and a new set of templates in Excel which allow users to do things like create invoices without having to know how to create the... [11 Jan 2007]
Redmond patches Windows, Office flaws
News Microsoft yesterday released fixes for vulnerabilities in its Windows and Office software but left several known Word zero-day flaws without a patch. Andrew Storms, director of security operations at network security company nCircle, said in a... [10 Jan 2007]
OpenOffice tackles "highly critical" hole
News It contains all the standard business applications, including word processing, database and spreadsheet programmes. Users must manually install the file in place of its vulnerable predecessor, or upgrade to the latest version of the software... [08 Jan 2007]
Google 'needs' Microsoft for enterprise success
News Girouard believes next year will be a breakthrough year for Google apps such as its spreadsheets and word processing service, formerly known as Writely. The bulk of Google's enterprise revenue still comes from search and as such the more sources of... [21 Nov 2006]
Microsoft readies Office Live for free UK trial
News Rival Google earlier this year launched the online Google Docs, with Spreadsheets following last month, but Microsoft's Kimber said Microsoft's focus groups had shown very little demand from businesses for online versions of Word and Excel. [15 Nov 2006]
Word to get 'save as OpenDocument' add-on
News Microsoft later this month plans to release a converter that will let Word users open documents saved in the OpenDocument format. The plug-in for Word, set for release on 23 October, is the first instalment of Microsoft's plan to add support for... [16 Oct 2006]
Google to offer Office-style web app bundle
News Google is diving further into the web-based productivity application market by offering a new product that combines its online word application and spreadsheet programs. Google acquired the online word processing application Writely in March and... [11 Oct 2006]
Attacks still battering unpatched Windows flaws
News A flaw in Word has gone unpatched since early this month and a flaw in an IE ActiveX control called daxctle.ocx first surfaced on 14 September. For the attack to be carried out, a user must first open a malicious PowerPoint file attached to an... [28 Sep 2006]
Security group issues emergency IE patch
News Word of the vulnerability came last week, when the weakness was already being exploited in cyber attacks. In January, an outside patch was created for a vulnerability in the way Windows renders Windows Meta File images, and in March, two security... [25 Sep 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News Trojan MDropper.Q exploits the Microsoft Word vulnerability to drop another file, a new variant of Backdoor.Femo, according to a security advisory by Symantec. An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by... [05 Sep 2006]
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