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Microsoft admits it can't stop Office file format hacks
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| Microsoft's plan to "sandbox" Office documents in the next version of its
| application suite is an admission that the company can't keep hackers from
| exploiting file format bugs, a security analyst said today.
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http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135852/Microsoft_admits_it_can_t_stop_Office_file_format_hacks
Recent:
Excel criticized over ODF interoperability
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| Microsoft has come under fire for spreadsheet interoperability issues in its
| latest release of Office 2007 SP2, but the company said it is an issue
| inherent in ODF (Open Document Format) 1.1.
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| The software giant released last week the second service pack for Office
| 2007, which provides support for documents saved in the ODF 1.1 format.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62053833,00.htm
Disputes over ODF spreadsheet interoperability
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| Microsoft's release of Open Document Format (ODF) support in Service Pack 2
| for Office 2007 has triggered a war of words over the handling of spreadsheet
| formulas. Rob Weir has posted the results of his interoperability testing of
| various applications which claim ODF compatibility. Weir's results show
| Microsoft ODF support as failing on spreadsheet tests with nearly all other
| applications.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/Disputes-over-ODF-spreadsheet-interoperability--/news/113223
Related:
Microsoft admits Swedish employee promised incentives for Open XML support
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| Microsoft Corp. admitted Wednesday that an employee at its Swedish subsidiary
| offered monetary compensation to partners for voting in favor of the Office
| Open XML document format's approval as an ISO standard.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9033701
Corrupt countries were more likely to support the OOXML document format
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| Is this just a random coincidence? The median of the CPI index of the above
| mentioned 70 countries is 3.95. Of the most corrupted half (CPI index less
| than 3.95) 23 or 77% voted for approval (approval or approval with comments)
| and 7 or 23% for disapproval; 5 abstained. Of the least corrupted half (CPI
| index more than 3.95) 13 or 54% voted for approval and 11 or 46% voted for
| disapproval; 11 abstained - see the table below.
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http://www.effi.org/blog/kai-2007-09-05.en.html
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