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Microsoft Word Security Flaw

Posted by timothy on from the remember-word-viruses-fondly dept.

JWL-23 writes: "cnn.com is reporting that a Microsoft Word flaw may allow file theft. Furthermore, they plan on not fixing Word 97, leaving millions of users out in the cold. Yet another reason to try OpenOffice.org." It still takes more than running Word to expose the contents of your hard drive though.

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  1. Re:Riiiight by Oliver+Wendell+Jones · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    The corporation I work for (which is huge, BTW) still uses Office 97 and Outlook 98 on Windows 2000 as our desktop configuration.

    We are currently planning to upgrade to Windows XP in the next 6 months, but the plan is for us to continue to use Office 97 as there are no compelling business reasons for us to upgrade to later versions.

    Office 97 does *everything* we need it for. Period.

    Visio 2000 is the only 'recent' version of any Microsoft software that we currently use.

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