Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said ...

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The bottom line seems to be that Office 2003 has, or at least could have, some baked-in vulnerabilities relating to these file formats and that playing with these formats, especially files from ...

Those old Microsoft Office and Corel Draw files you have hanging around? Dangerous. Shouldn't open 'em. And once you install the latest Office 2003 Service Pack, you won't be able to. "After you ...

Microsoft is facing criticism from a competitor and some customers for its decision to block some older file formats with Office 2003 Service Pack 3, which it released last September. The only ...

"Right decision wrongly handled" is the essence of Microsoft's mea culpa on the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 file-blocking fiasco. More than 430 words into the defense of Microsoft's position, senior ...

I've been working a lot lately on a project that as part of its functionality writes over or deletes files in a sub-folder in the Program Files folder in Windows XP Pro. Trying to delete the files or ...