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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]
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 word processors is the pagination - it allows... [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. M is for Microsoft When recipients attempt to open the file, a message is displayed stating: "Microsoft has encountered an error and had to close. [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 attacks, it said. Most of these bugs exist because of errors in the way the... [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. The plug-in will work with Microsoft's Word application, including the latest Office 2007... [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 network security company nCircle, said in a... [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 Windows renders '.wmf' files, leading to the company releasing... [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. The latest Office vulnerability affects Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, Microsoft Word Viewer 2003, Word 2004 for Mac... [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 PowerPoint attacks, Microsoft suggests keeping security software up-to... [28 Sep 2006]
Alert over "extremely critical" Word flaw
News Symantec's advisory stated: "As with other recent [Microsoft] Office vulnerabilities, documents incorporating the exploit code must be opened with a vulnerable copy of Microsoft Word 2000 for it to work. [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 formed to solve the problem... [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 addition, the monthly set of patches Microsoft released on... [19 Jun 2006]
Microsoft faces up to SOX challenge
News Microsoft wants to make sure that however the rules change, businesses are still using Excel (and Word and PowerPoint) for their computerised files. With the next version of Office, Microsoft plans to let businesses set rules, enforced by server... [25 May 2005]
Google desktop search leaves beta era
News Because the tool had been able to index privacy-sensitive documents - against users' wishes - the final product avoids indexing those Word and Excel files that are password-protected, Bhatla said. The final version, in public beta for nearly five... [07 Mar 2005]
Office has "kindergarten crypto mistake"
News The data protection feature in Microsoft Word and Excel documents has a major flaw that could allow snoopers to decode password-protected files, a security researcher has warned. A lot of information could be retrieved from those encrypted files... [21 Jan 2005]
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