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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. Microsoft is expanding its repertoire of document... [21 May 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... [02 Feb 2007]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News Word of the outbreak and of the new flaw comes just days after Microsoft released 12 security bulletins with fixes for 21 vulnerabilities in several of its products, including Office. In addition, the monthly set of... [19 Jun 2006]
Microsoft warns Word users to be safe
News For an attack to be carried out, a PC user must open a malicious Word document sent in an email or otherwise provided by an attacker, it said. In the wake of at least one targeted attack that exploits a... [24 May 2006]
Blunder in Word shows government terror doubts
News The letter, sent via email as a Word document to members of the opposition, appeared to back controversial plans to hold terror suspects for up to three months without trial, however anybody applying the... [16 Sep 2005]
Sun backs EU push for Office document interoperability
News Schwartz said it's a good idea, and Sun will add filters to the next versions of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org to allow interchange of documents based on WordML and ExcelML, Microsoft's respective word processing and... [01 Oct 2004]
Microsoft opens up Office for governments
News But most documents are still created in proprietary Microsoft formats such as the .doc extension used by Word. Besides security, specific concerns surrounding Office include better understanding of its file formats to... [20 Sep 2004]
Metadata reveals SCO switched legal target
News A Microsoft Word document of SCO's suit against DaimlerChrysler, seen by silicon.com sister site CNET News.com, originally identified Bank of America as the defendant instead of the automaker. This... [05 Mar 2004]
Microsoft issues patch for Word crash bug
News The update, available for download now, primarily corrects a flaw that can cause Word 2003 to freeze or crash when trying to print or save a document that includes an object based on... [28 Jan 2004]
Oracle-PeopleSoft - deal could be cleared in March
News Oracle expects to receive final word by early March on whether the US Department of Justice will challenge its hostile bid for PeopleSoft, according to a recent California court filing. Oracle believes decoupling is... [12 Jan 2004]
Microsoft admits Word not hacker-proof
News A set of relatively simple instructions on how to bypass the security of a password-protected Word document was published on the internet on Friday. Microsoft has hit back at critics of... [08 Jan 2004]
First 'critical' patch issued for Office 2003
News The "critical update", released late on Tuesday, applies to three of the four major applications in Office 2003 - the Word word processing program, the PowerPoint presentation... [06 Nov 2003]
British firm takes on Microsoft Office
News Ability Plus Software has been selling word processors and other office applications in Europe since the 1980s. The company now hopes to expand by selling Ability Office - a package that combines a word... [03 Nov 2003]
Microsoft issues "critical" Office security alert
News The flaw affects recent versions of Office applications that support VBA scripting, including the 2002, 2000 and 97 versions of Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word. If Microsoft's Outlook email client is set up to use... [04 Sep 2003]
Microsoft locks down Office
News Until now, PC users have been able to count on opening and manipulating any document saved in Microsoft Word's ".doc" format or Excel's ".xls" in any compatible program, including older versions of... [03 Sep 2003]
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