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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), according to tests run by a document standards... [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 preferred standard for software interoperability. [29 Oct 2007]
Trojan targets companies' top brass
News We have to run Office and we have to allow Word, RTF, PowerPoint and Excel files through. C-level employees of publicly listed companies are being targeted by cyber criminals using malware-infected RTF (Rich Text File) documents disguised as... [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 company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a... [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 Microsoft's Word application... [02 Feb 2007]
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]
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 plug-in for Office 2007 by the end of this year and translators for... [06 Jul 2006]
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 patches Microsoft released on... [19 Jun 2006]
Microsoft lets Longhorn out of the barn
News The icon for a Word document, for example, is a tiny iteration of the first page of the file. For example, document icons are no longer a hint of the type of file, but rather a small picture of the file itself. [15 Apr 2005]
Apple snaps up software format translator
News The Office rival includes the Keynote presentation program, which can read and write to Microsoft's PowerPoint format, and Pages, a word-processing program. Word that Apple was buying SchemaSoft first came in a report on Mac enthusiast site... [23 Mar 2005]
Java founder questions Sun-Microsoft link
News The Java guru commended Microsoft on opening up the specifications for Microsoft Office schemas in Word and Excel as it allowed developers - including Sun - to legitimately build interoperate products instead of employing reverse-engineering. [04 Feb 2005]
Google squares up to Microsoft
News The index might also show a photo or MP3 file that was labelled with the word in it. Under the desktop results, Google might show a previously viewed web page on sailboats, an email or AOL instant message mentioning boats, or a Word document. [14 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 allow interoperability with... [20 Sep 2004]
Microsoft issues patch for Word crash bug
News The article accompanying the update also lists a number of other smaller issues addressed by the patch, including conditions that can cause text to disappear or Word 2003 to inappropriately launch a file conversion tool. [28 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 Word's password protect feature, which the company has... [08 Jan 2004]
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