files in word in news
BlackBerry Storms the touchscreen market
News In addition to an attachment viewer, you can also do some light editing on Microsoft Word and PowerPoint files. The media player can handle various music and video formats and the... [08 Oct 2008]
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... [21 Apr 2008]
First iPhone Trojan reported
News When installed, the Trojan appeared to do nothing more than display the word "shoes", according to the ModMyiFone post. However, when a user attempted to uninstall the malicious code, the application wiped... [09 Jan 2008]
Mozilla releases Firefox 3 beta
News The Firefox 3 beta was due to arrive in July and there's no word yet on when the software will come out of beta. Even Microsoft has bowed to the reality, testing its Live.com websites with Firefox and... [21 Nov 2007]
Adobe buys web word processor
News The company is expected to announce it has acquired an 11-person start-up, called Virtual Ubiquity, that has built a free web word processor called Buzzword. What sets Buzzword apart from other online... [01 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. Security vendor MesssageLabs reported that 1,100 emails containing malware-infected RTF attachments have been... [26 Sep 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... [09 May 2007]
Microsoft-backed ODF converter set for launch
News Novell last year said it will use the Word translator to allow users of OpenOffice, which supports ODF, to work with OOXML files from Microsoft Office. Microsoft started the project at SourceForge last... [02 Feb 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... [10 Jan 2007]
OpenOffice tackles "highly critical" hole
News It contains all the standard business applications, including word processing, database and spreadsheet programmes. In early 2006, Microsoft acknowledged a critical weakness in the way... [08 Jan 2007]
Cyber attackers exploiting Word flaw
News As a way of protection, Microsoft suggests not opening or saving Word files from unknown sources or which arrive unexpectedly. A yet-to-be-patched security hole in multiple versions of... [06 Dec 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 temporary protection against... [28 Sep 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News An "extremely critical flaw" in Microsoft Word 2000 is currently being exploited by malicious attackers, which could lead to remote execution of code on a user's system, security researcher Secunia... [05 Sep 2006]
Google rallies to OpenDocument cause
News Google, whose Writely online word processing program supports ODF, joined the roster of 240 ODF Alliance members this week, Marino Marcich, managing director of the ODF, said on Tuesday. The group, the ODF Alliance, was... [13 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... [19 Jun 2006]
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