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Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News The arbitrary file download vulnerability in ActiveX could be exploited if the user visits a web page containing malicious code, Microsoft warned. The vulnerabilities in indexing validation and array, record parsing, and credential caching could... [13 Aug 2008]
Apple releases patch for critical flaw
News Apple's update also fixes a QuickLook bug where loading a malicious Microsoft Office file could lead to "arbitrary code execution". Apple released a security update yesterday to users of its Tiger and Leopard operating systems to address a critical... [01 Aug 2008]
Microsoft: Why we chose ODF support over OOXML
News While developing our support for ODF requires a substantial amount of work, changes to existing file formats are often more complex than developing new code and therefore more difficult to implement due to backwards compatibility considerations. [23 May 2008]
Microsoft pledges Office 2007 ODF support
News Erich Anderson, vice president and general counsel for Europe, said in a telephone interview: "Microsoft is going to be providing support for three new file formats directly in the Office product. Microsoft said yesterday that starting some time... [22 May 2008]
Sales of Mac Office rocket, says Microsoft
News That feature was in Office 2004 but was pulled in the current version as Microsoft worked to add support for Intel processors and new file formats. For those still using the last release of Office, Lefebvre said that, after several delays... [13 May 2008]
Microsoft Office 2007 fails to conform with OOXML
News Commentators, including Tim Bray, the inventor of XML, have suggested that Microsoft is unlikely to bother to keep conforming with the OOXML standard as it develops within ISO, but Brown is more optimistic: "Given Microsoft's proven ability to... [21 Apr 2008]
Did Microsoft use desktop dominance in OOXML standard?
News European antitrust regulators are investigating whether Microsoft abused its desktop software market dominance in its effort to get the Office Open XML file formats standardised. The European Commission said in January it was exploring whether the... [04 Apr 2008]
Microsoft boosts stability of Office 2008 for Mac
News The company has also delayed several times the availability of converter tools that allow its predecessor to read the XML file formats introduced with Office 2007 for Windows. Microsoft has released its first update to Office 2008 for Mac, fixes... [12 Mar 2008]
Office updates for Mac? There's good news and bad
News At the same time though, it has again pushed back the release of converters needed by users of Office 2004 to read documents saved in the new XML file formats used by Office 2007 for Windows. As a result we are pushing back the release of the final... [22 Feb 2008]
Don't put Vista in schools, says education agency
News Hardie also explained Office 2007 is not recommended for schools as there are interoperability issues between Microsoft's latest file format, OOXML, and the open file format ODF, making it difficult for users to switch between platforms. [10 Jan 2008]
South Africa plumps for Open Documents
News ODF is a file format used for office documents such as word processing, spreadsheets and presentations. It is an international standard recognised by the ISO (International Organization for Standardization), and a rival to Microsoft's Office Open... [29 Oct 2007]
Gates: 'My work here is not yet done'
News The digital watches that use Microsoft's Smart Personal Object Technology have remained geek toys, and his dream of an all-new Windows file system based on SQL found itself on the cutting-room floor when Longhorn became Vista. [19 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News When recipients attempt to open the file, a message is displayed stating: "Microsoft has encountered an error and had to close. C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich... [26 Sep 2007]
Microsoft and NHS team up on software design
News The idea is that there would be an open standard that would allow all kinds of information - medical device data, prescription information and other patient records - to be maintained in one electronic file. [10 Sep 2007]
Mac virus threat still "insignificant"
News The Mac maker has plugged security flaws that could have resulted in OS X customers being "owned" by basic actions such as visiting a malicious website, watching a video file or opening an email attachment. [12 Jul 2007]
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