Office 2003 Update Blocks Older File Formats
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The latest service pack has made a range of older files inaccessible, including Word documents, Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations.
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Scribd anti-piracy system blocks uploading of content if the text matches material in its system provided by copyright holders.
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Microsoft apparently has started updating files on PCs running XP and Vista, even when users have disabled the operating systems' automatic update feature.
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Microsoft is stopping people getting hold of a key security update via net-based file- sharing systems.
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Separate from Microsoft's efforts to create a translator that supports Office 2007's Open XML formats and OpenDocument, Sun has released the final 1.0 version of its own ODF plug-in for Office. However, Office 2007 is not yet supported due to what Sun calls a bug in Microsoft's newest suite.
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UPDATED - In another carefully timed move to garner support for its document format still under consideration for an international standard, Microsoft today clarified the terms under which use of its Office Open XML format by developers is permitted.
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Thanks to some new developments in document standards, Office 2007 users will be able to share files with open-source office apps and online productivity suites from the likes of Zoho and Google. In Monkey Bites.
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Digital Rights technology built onto some My Book drives restricts users from sharing certain files.
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Microsoft has no plans to release a set of tools for Office 2007 that would allow users to access blocked file formats, even though it did so for customers running Office 2003 Service Pack 3.
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'Don't edit' list includes photos, and Quicken and QuickBooks files, Microsoft warned. There's no word yet on a fix.
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Some users are getting the massive Office 2007 SP1 update automatically -- even though Microsoft said it would not use Windows' Automatic Updates to push out the  upgrade for months.
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A Microsoft blog posting from a software engineer apologized for botching up communications around the blocking of old Office, Corel, and Lotus file formats in Office 2003 SP3. Why did anyone think these were security risks?
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Chicken hawk Microsoft is crying foul against IBM in its campaign for fast-track approval of XML Office file formats as an international standard.â¦
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BOSTON -- A data format used in Microsoft Corp.'s prevalent Office software line has been approved as an international standard _ a move aimed at preserving access to documents created with the package for years to come.
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Why does Windows say my antivirus program is out of date when I just recently installed it?
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In sync with today's public release of the Office 2007 Beta 2 Technical Refresh, the Developer Tools division at Microsoft has made available the first public beta of the second edition of Visual Studio Tools for Office 2005. Users will now be able to use VS2005 to develop managed code add-ins for Office 2003 and Office 2007 apps.
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Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.