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Microsoft's 'Patch Tuesday' targets six critical flaws
News Office applications have received critical patches from Microsoft this month. Three critical vulnerabilities also lie in Microsoft Office PowerPoint, which could allow an attacker to completely control a system. [13 Aug 2008]
Microsoft's Midori not ready for tasting?
News That said, up to this point, every update to Office and Windows has been some type of incremental improvement, not a ground-up rewrite. Back in 2000, the company had an effort called NetDocs that many thought might replace Office with an online... [06 Aug 2008]
Microsoft warns of ActiveX attack targetting Access
News The ActiveX control, which allows a user to view an Access report snapshot without having the standard or run-time versions of Microsoft Office Access, ships with the standalone Snapshot Viewer and with all supported versions of Microsoft Office... [08 Jul 2008]
IT education organisation takes Microsoft grumbles to EC
News Last October, Becta went to the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) with two Microsoft-related complaints, one regarding school subscription-licensing arrangements and the other regarding the lack of full interoperability between recent products, such as... [14 May 2008]
Office 2007 spurs boom in software market
News Spurred by sales of Microsoft's Office 2007, the software market hit its highest level since 1999, according to a report released yesterday by the NPD Group. A lot of that is due to Microsoft, largely because of Office but also because of Vista's... [31 Jan 2008]
Office Excel at risk from attack
News Microsoft has issued a security advisory that malicious attackers are targeting versions of its Office Excel with vulnerabilities. Microsoft Office Excel 2003 with Service Pack 2, Excel Viewer 2003, Excel 2002, Excel 2000, and Microsoft Excel 2004... [17 Jan 2008]
Vista sales failing to sparkle
News Sales of Office 2003 at retail continued to grow over the life of the product. Retail sales of Office products from January through June were roughly double those of Office 2003 during its first six months on the market and up 59.6 per cent from... [12 Sep 2007]
Microsoft settles Eolas patent saga
News Eolas prevailed earlier in the case, with a court awarding damages of $521m in 2003 and the US Patent Office upholding the validity of the Eolas patent in 2005. Microsoft has settled a long-running and expensive lawsuit with Eolas Technologies, a... [31 Aug 2007]
Vast software 'counterfeiting ring' smashed
News The software contained unauthorised versions of 13 Microsoft products, including Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007, Windows XP and Windows Server. Microsoft claims the alleged counterfeiting syndicate, based in the south China province... [25 Jul 2007]
Massachusetts moots opening door to Microsoft
News Massachusetts has proposed changing its standards policy to make room for Microsoft Office document formats. Office Open XML, also referred to as Ecma-376, are the XML-based file formats in Office 2007 that Microsoft standardised at Ecma... [03 Jul 2007]
Microsoft to expand document formats
News The company is expected to announce it is sponsoring an open source project to create a converter between Ecma Open XML - a set of file formats closely tied to Microsoft Office - and a Chinese national standard called Unified Office Format (UOF). [21 May 2007]
Microsoft patches 'the class of 2007'
News Microsoft has released fixes for 19 security flaws in several of its products, including Internet Explorer 7, Office 2007 and Exchange 2007. Three Microsoft updates deal with flaws in Office applications, including Office 2007. [09 May 2007]
Microsoft primes DNS fix for Patch Tuesday
News The bulletins, part of Microsoft's monthly patch cycle, are slated to provide fixes for an undisclosed number of security vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Exchange and BizTalk, Microsoft said on its website. [04 May 2007]
Office 2003 gets security upgrade
News Microsoft plans to make some of the security improvements and features it built into Office 2007 available for Office 2003, a company representative said on Thursday. Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 will be focused on security, said Joshua Edwards... [27 Apr 2007]
Microsoft warns of 'critical' Windows flaw
News At the same time security experts have issued warnings on multiple zero-day flaws in Office and another one in Windows. Cyber crooks are using a yet-to-be-patched security flaw in certain Windows versions to attack computers running the operating... [13 Apr 2007]
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