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Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Word documents generated by today's version of Microsoft Office 2007 do not conform to the Office Open XML standard under development by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO),... [21 Apr 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. The South African government is to adopt Open Document Format (ODF) as its... [29 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as recruitment letters. We have to run Office and we... [26 Sep 2007]
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 converters, to be available on open source project hosting site... [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. Once installed, a... [02 Feb 2007]
Phone-crashing bugs found in Windows Mobile
News The company has advised people to make sure their security software is up to date and urges caution when opening Word documents. In addition to the Windows Mobile issues, Microsoft is also investigating... [01 Feb 2007]
Attackers hitting yet another Word flaw
News Symantec advises people to make sure their security software is up-to-date and urges caution when opening Word documents. Businesses should put policies in place to prevent Word... [26 Jan 2007]
Office 2008 for Mac: It's coming this year
News On the file format front, Microsoft said this spring it plans to have ready a beta test version of converters, allowing people with the current Office for Mac to read and write documents in the new... [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... [10 Jan 2007]
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. By the end of the year, the open source project building the converters... [16 Oct 2006]
Google to offer Office-style web app bundle
News The program allows users to collaborate online in real time, use a variety of file formats for importing and exporting, and publish documents and spreadsheets on a web page or blog. Google is diving... [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. This component is meant to support Vector Markup Language (VML)... [28 Sep 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News The vulnerability affects systems running Windows 2000 and occurs when processing malicious Word 2000 documents, according to Secunia's security advisory. Symantec's advisory stated: "As with other... [05 Sep 2006]
Redmond has 'road to Damascus' open source conversion
News On Thursday, the Open XML Translator project intends to release a prototype of software that will change Word documents to OpenDocument, and vice versa. The goal is to have a Word... [06 Jul 2006]
Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News Instead of issuing an out-of-cycle patch, Microsoft recommended that users be careful in opening Word documents and that they run the application in safe mode. Word of the outbreak and... [19 Jun 2006]
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