wjbell wrote:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft's Achilles' Heel: Office
wjbell selectively snipped:
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>> | To put last year's 41 critical Office patches into
>> | perspective, consider that Microsoft shipped a total of
>> | 37 critical updates for all of its software products in
>> | 2005. None of the patch or vulnerability numbers cited
>> | in this story takes into account three still-unpatched
>> | vulnerabilities present in Microsoft Word, two of which
>> | Microsoft has acknowledged that criminals are actively
>> | exploiting.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/01/microsofts_
achilles_heel_offic_1.html#more
To which included the following comment:
| I've been a Microsoft Office Certified Expert since the 90s
| and between these exploits and the stunningly poor coding
| of the new Office 2007's OXML format, my company is
| spending 2007 switching over to the FOSS OpenOffice. We
| tested it directly against the Office 2007 beta throughout
| 2006 and the vote was unanimously in favor of OpenOffice.
| As a big fan of Word and Excel, even I was surprised at how
| well OpenOffice Writer and Calc could hang with Microsoft
| Office, only without the bloat or danger.
|
| Posted by: zridling | January 5, 2007 12:20 PM
> Marked as off-topic spam, Roy Schestowitz.
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