Excel vulnerable to new attack
With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software.
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5.2.2007 Microsoft: Free tool for planning Office 2007 Conversions
Microsoft Corp. last week released the final part of a free tool kit designed to help corporate users convert their existing Office files to Office 2007's new Open XML file format.
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27.2.2007 Outlook HTML and CSS Validator (Office 2007 System Tool)
This download accompanies the MSDN articles "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 1 of 2)" and "Word 2007 HTML and CSS Rendering Capabilities in Outlook 2007 (Part 2 of 2)." To view these articles, click the links available from the Related Links section of the page.
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14.8.2006 Any Video Converter Free 2.07
Any Video Converter is an All-in-One video converting tool with easy-to-use graphical interface, fast converting speed and excellent video quality. It allows you to effortlessly convert video files between every format!
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1.8.2007 Unofficial Microsoft Points (Xbox Live) Converter
Check out how much that new theme, picture pack or Horse Armour really costs!
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8.7.2006 Microsoft delivers 11 patches, 6 critical; Excel flaw left unpatched
Microsoft delivered 11 patches on Tuesday addressing 17 vulnerabilities. Six updates fix critical flaws and five address important vulnerabilities, but an already exploited Excel zero day was left unpatched.
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12.2.2008 Windows Vista, Office 2007, Exchange 2007 Business Launch
While it's not the retail launch date, today is the official business launch for the next generation of Microsoft's Windows operating system, Windows Vista.
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1.12.2006 Outlook 2007 users angry over Office 2007 HTML-e-mail changes
A quiet change Microsoft has made in the rendering engine used by Outlook 2007 is beginning to sink in among individuals who have gotten accustomed to having the Internet Explorer (IE) engine render HTML e-mail messages. And the reaction of many is one of anger and disbelief.
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13.1.2007 Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 Launched in The Netherlands
Today Microsoft launched Windows Vista, 2007 Office System and Exchange Server 2007 for Volume license businesses in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
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29.11.2006 Microsoft Office 2007 to be released in 2007
Following on from the recent Windows Vista delays Microsoft has stated that it expects Microsoft Office 2007 to be available to businesses at year-end and OEM/Retail in early 2007.
Microsoft has a habbit of releasing products in one year but naming them a year ahead to keep them sounding up to date in the market.
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25.3.2006 New WGA Tool on it's way
An updated version of Microsoft's WGA Tool for Windows XP, is on it's way out thru Windows Update.
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1.12.2006 Microsoft ActiveX Analyzer Tool
The ActiveX Analyzer Tool is designed to scan for and identify object, applet, and embed tags in code. The utility will output the complete file path, line number, and literal script that the tag(s) reside in so that the user can easily open the file and locate the code.
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29.4.2006 Microsoft Defends Its Antipiracy Tool
Redmond, Wash. (AHN) - Microsoft defended its Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) after a blog charged that the tool acts like spyware as it constantly checks in with the vendor when a user boots a PC with the tool installed.
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9.6.2006 Network Diagnostics Tool for Windows
The Network Diagnostics for Windows XP tool analyzes information about your network connectivity to help you troubleshoot network-related problems with your computer. Typically you will do this along with a support professional, either on the phone or over the internet. After you install this item, you may have to restart your computer.
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25.7.2006 AMI Bios Tool by Gkend
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this article on his blog. Steve Jobs wrote: That’s another great tool by Gkend, created to easily add a SLIC table to an existing AMI Bios.
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25.5.2007 Zune Device Diagnostic Tool
The Zune Device Diagnostic Tool compiles data to help Product Support Services diagnose Zune USB and wireless sync connection problems.
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20.12.2007 Microsoft to offer third beta of collaboration tool
Microsoft has released the third beta version of its Team Foundation Server (TFS) software for application lifecycle management, a Microsoft representative said.
Available to Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) subscribers, the beta release will be feature-complete and is based on the September SQL Server 2005 Community Technology Preview, according to Microsoft. The beta will function with the Visual Studio 2005 Release Candidate made available to MSDN subscribers and attendees of the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference last week.
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Microsoft tool 'snarfs' up unwanted e-mail
Microsoft Corp.'s research arm yesterday released a free tool to help users slog through e-mail messages in their inbox in the order of importance, according to one of the researchers who developed the software.
Created within Microsoft Research, the Social Network and Relationship Finder, or SNARF, is an application that uses the same database as a user's e-mail client to count the number of times users send and receive e-mails from people, said A.J. Brush, a researcher in the community technologies group at Microsoft Research.
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2.12.2005 Xbox DRM Transfer Tool Is Released
If there's one thing Microsoft can do right most of the time is protecting its intellectual property. The software giant has always been at the forefront of creating ways to stop other people from stealing the company's work.
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30.6.2008 Windows 7 Speech Recognition Profile Tool
Microsoft made available for download an updated version of its Windows Speech Recognition Profile Tool tailored to the next iteration of the Windows client.
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29.5.2009 Windows 7 Activation Tool Kit BETA 1.8
Orbit30 releases a Windows 7 activation tool and a Windows Vista / 7 tweaker. - Windows 7 Activation Tool Kit BETA 1.8 | 25.4 Mb
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23.7.2009 MURL Desktop URL Shortener Tool
URL shortening is method by which you can create short url for long url to use on microblogging service like twitter or to make it easier to remember.
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7.9.2009 Microsoft Demos Graphic Design Tool Suite
Microsoft Corp. Wednesday demonstrated its new toolset aimed at helping software graphic design experts and developers work better together.
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Microsoft to Refine Vista's PC Rating Tool
Microsoft is retooling a PC rating feature in Windows Vista following criticism from hardware makers and others, an example that the next-generation operating system may not yet be ready for mass consumption.
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26.5.2006 Microsoft Releases WGA Bypass Tool to OEMs
With the introduction of Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA), a computer must be validated as genuine prior to receiving security patches from Windows Update.
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18.10.2006 Vista Oem Activation Tool Kit 0.5 Beta
Thanks to Steve Jobs for this download. This is Vista Oem Activation Tool Kit 0.5 Beta by Steve Jobs @ Keznews forum
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22.3.2007 Vista Oem Activation Tool Kit v1.5
Steve Jobs update his Vista Oem Activation Tool Kit For Vista 32bit and 64bit to version 1.5. Vista will be 100% genuine, all downloads will work.
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3.4.2007 Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool 1.31
The Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool checks computers for infections by specific, prevalent malicious software—including Blaster, Sasser, and Mydoom—and helps remove any infection found.
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12.7.2007 New tool enables loading of unsigned drivers in Vista
A new software tool has been released by Linchpin Labs that allows the loading of unsigned and legacy drivers on Windows XP, 2003, and most importantly Vista.
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31.7.2007 BITS Repair Tool for Windows Vista Available updated
The BITS Repair Tool will help you fix a problem caused by the corruption of BITS state files. The problem stops the host process for Windows Services, which prevents you from using BITS to transfer files. Thanks to pacpis for this download.
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2.9.2007VBA and Office 14
There's been some discussion on this
thread on Slashdot, (
updated) which started
from this article in The Register UK.
To be clear,
Microsoft is not replacing VBA with VSTA or VSTO in Office for Windows . (though VSTA and VSTO are still important developer tools for
Office 14)
VBA is here to stay, as was announced some time back by Steven Sinofsky.
The
Excel and
Access Blogs both have posts covering this from the
Office perspective.
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19.01.2008VMware Releases New Converter Tool
VMware on Monday released a
beta version of VMware
Converter 3, a tool that takes
a physical computer system and
transforms it into a virtual
machine image to be used with
the company's products. The
new release combines two
previously separate tools:
VMware P2V Assistant and
Virtual Machine Importer...
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02.10.2006Virtual Machine for Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool
The Exchange Calendar Update Configuration Tool enables administrators to update, using the Time Zone Data Update Tool for Microsoft Office Outlook,
multiple user mailboxes, thereby avoiding the challenges involved with broadly deploying the Outlook Time Zone Data Update Tool to all end-users.
The VM contains a trial version of Windows Server 2003, Microsoft Outlook 2007, Excel 2007 and Word 2007. The Exchange Calendar
Update Configuration Tool is preinstalled as well. The VM can be used on both Virtual PC or Virtual Server.
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14.09.2007Using Conditional Cell Formatting in Excel 2007
If you are working on a spreadsheet and want to be able to quickly see differences in numbers at a glance, you should use the new Conditional Cell
Formatting in Excel 2007. With this you can change the background of a cell based on the data in the cell, almost like an inline chart.
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19.08.2008Tools: Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2007 guide
One of my biggest worries with
the upgrade from MS Office
2003 to Office 2007 is that
our users will keep the
helpdesk busy with questions
about the new user interfaces
of Word 2007, Excel 2007 and
PowerPoint 2007. The changes
are really big. Microsoft now
offers a very useful and
easy-to-use tool which allows
users to find the new
locations of commands they
know from former Office
versions.
So far
there are guides for
Word 2003 to
Word 2007,
Excel 2003
to Excel 2007 and
PowerPoint
2003 to PowerPoint 2007.
They are all flash
applications simulating these
three Office programs. If you
click on a function of Word
2003, for example, the flash
tool will run a short
animation showing you where
you can find this function in
Word 2007.
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30.01.2007Digital TV Converter Box Rebate Announced
The Commerce Department
approved a plan Monday that
would allow every U.S.
household to be eligible for
two $40 coupons that could be
used towards the purchase of a
digital-to-along converter box
beginning in January 2008...
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13.03.2007Excel Calculation Issue Update (Fix Available)
Two weeks ago, we posted about an issue involving the calculation of numbers around 65,535 and 65,536. As of today, fixes for this issue in Excel
2007 and Excel Services 2007 are available for download from the following locations:
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Excel Services 2007 We are in the process of
adding this fix to Microsoft Update so that it will get automatically pushed to users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2007. Additionally, the
fix will also be contained in the first service pack of Office 2007 when it is released (the release date for SP1 of Office 2007 has not been
finalized).
Thank you for your patience,
The Excel Team
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10.10.2007Office Live Update 1.1
The Office Live Update 1.1 installs (1) performance updates to make using Office Live Workspace with Microsoft Office programs faster, (2) the latest
Office Live Add-in for Microsoft Office that enables you to access your workspaces directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint and (3) the Multiple
Document Upload Tool.
The Office Live Add-in adds new menu options in the 2007 Microsoft Office Suite and a toolbar in Microsoft
Office XP and Office 2003. You will be able to open documents located in Office Live Workspace directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. You will
also be able to save files directly from Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to Office Live Workspace.
The Multiple Document Upload Tool
lets you add multiple documents to a workspace at once and even allows users to drag and drop files directly from their desktop.
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16.05.2008Better late than never: Open XML converter comes to Mac
Almost two years after it was originally promised, Microsoft has finally delivered the Open XML converter plug-in for Mac OS X...
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26.06.2008Microsoft Fixes Excel Calculation Bug
Microsoft says it has fixed a much publicized Excel 2007 bug which caused the spreadsheet program to display erroneous calculation results. The Excel
team explained the issue this way: of the countless different floating point numbers Excel 2007 can store, there are six floating numbers using binary
representation that cause the problem. Apparently for calculations that amount to around 65,535, Excel 2007 would return a value of 100,000 instead of
65,535. Thus, for instance, if you multiplied 850 by 77.1, the program would display 100,000 instead of 65,535, but if you consequently multiplied the
result by 2, you would get 131,070, the correct answer. The issue, according to the Excel staff, was introduced when Microsofts development team made
changes to the Excel calculation logic in Office 2007.
However, all of that is now in the past: in an Oct. 9 posting on the Excel section
of MSDN
the Excel Team served notice that, " as of today, fixes for this issue in Excel 2007 and Excel Services
2007 are available for download. " The team has also added the fix to Microsoft Update, " so that it will get automatically pushed to
users running Excel 2007 or Excel Services 2008. " The fix will be included in the first service pack of Office 2007 when its released, though
that date has not yet been finalized.
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Microsoft Office Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 0.2.1 (Beta)
With the Open XML Converter, you can convert Open XML files to a format that is compatible with Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac and Microsoft Office v.
X for Mac. You can choose to convert and open one file, or convert a large number of files.
This version of the converter can
convert the following Open XML file formats:
- Word Document (*.docx)
- Word Macro-Enabled Document (*.docm)
- PowerPoint Presentation (*.pptx)
- PowerPoint Show (*.ppsx)
- PowerPoint Template (*.potx)
The converter is a
Beta release, and might be unable to convert all the data in Open XML files. After you convert a file, you should review the file carefully to make
sure that it contains all of the information that you expect. For a complete list of known issues, install and open the converter, and then on the
Help menu, click Office Converter Help.
This Beta release expires on December 31, 2008.
winbeta.org - 19.12.2007
Building the Excel Media Player “ Part 2
Joseph Chirilov: Last post we talked about how to use Excel
as a flexible development environment and touched on the benefits of using Office graphics to build your UI. This post goes into how to use ActiveX
controls in Excel and how to contain and manipulate data in tables to drive your application.
winbeta.org - 17.04.2008
Symantec Finds Yet Another Excel Trojan Variant
It may be a single malicious
user with an axe to grind, and
that user may be targeting a
very small group of people who
just happen to use Microsoft
Excel. But whoever it is
continues to make security
firms like Symantec nervous,
as yet another Excel-based
document with a malformed
image string, dubbed
Trojan.Mdropper.Y , has
turned up...
betanews.com - 09.02.2007
Microsoft announces Office security initiative
Following recent
security issues with its
Office suite, Microsoft has
announced a move to provide
tighter restrictions to cut
back on widespread zero-day
attacks.
Microsoft is calling the
first new security tool
http://www.microsoft.com/techn
et/security/advisory/937696.ms
px>Microsoft Office Isolated
Conversion Environment
(MOICE). This update adds
additional checks when users
of an older version of Office
open up a 2007 format
document. Previously, it was
fairly easy for users to
implement malicious code in,
for example, a Microsoft Excel
2007 document and attack users
who opened it with Excel 2003.
Users must install
the update, but according to
Heise Security, it also causes
other compatibility issues.
All macros are automatically
disabled when converted with
MOICE, and by default files
than take longer tha 45
seconds to convert will be
blocked. A couple minor
PowerPoint issues are also
affected by MOICE...
winbeta.org - 22.05.2007
Microsoft to support Chinese document standard
The company on Monday
is expected to announce that
it is sponsoring an
open-source project to create
a converter between Ecma Open
XML--a set of file formats
closely tied to Microsoft
Office--and a Chinese national
standard called Unified Office
Format (UOF).
Also on Monday, the
company is expected to make
available beta versions of
previously announced
translators between PowerPoint
and Excel and corresponding
applications that support the
OpenDocument Format, or ODF.
The converters, to be
http://sourceforge.net/project
s/odftranslator/>available on
the SourceForge.net site, let
people open and save documents
in either the Ecma Open XML
formats or ODF. An initial
translator for Word was
released earlier this year;
those for PowerPoint and Excel
are expected to be completed
by the end of the year. ..
winbeta.org - 21.05.2007
Add Word/Excel 97-2003 Documents Back to the "New" Context Menu
If you are using Office 2007 in an environment where everybody else is using Office 2003, you might have already set Excel or Word to always save to 2003 format, but
what about when you create new documents using the New menu? The only choices are now to create files in 2007 format, but we can add the old ones
back.
winbeta.org - 18.08.2008
Microsoft delays Office converters for Mac
As it tries to finish
the next version of Office for
the Mac, Microsoft has delayed
efforts to enable current
users of the productivity
software to work with the new
file formats used in the
latest Windows version of the
desktop software.
Microsoft now says a
plug-in that will allow Office
2004 to fully work with the
new formats won't be ready
until six to eight weeks after
the Office 2008 for Mac
software suite ships, sometime
in the second half of this
year. Instead, the company is
offering a separate
downloadable converter
program, starting Tuesday,
designed to enable Office for
Mac users to convert Word
2007's .docx files to the
Rich Text Format, or RTF,
which can be read by all Mac
OS X versions of Office.
The Redmond, Wash.,
software giant said it hopes
to have similar conversion
tools for Excel and PowerPoint
by the summer. This is not the
first time Microsoft has
pushed out its plans for Mac
support for the new Office
file formats. In December,
Microsoft said a conversion
tool for the formats,
originally expected around the
time of the product's January
mainstream launch, wouldn't
come until March or April. ..
winbeta.org - 16.05.2007
Microsoft Acknowledges Floating Point Bug in Excel 2007
It's the type of bug that, when discovered twenty years ago on the world's leading spreadsheets of the time, generated controversy and sent
thousands back to their software stores for refunds: Excel 2007 has a bug with the display of floating-point values, a Microsoft developer confirmed on his team's blog yesterday.
BetaNews confirmed the bug's existence, which leads to some values in floating-point multiplication to be "rounded" to incorrect values.
The problem appears to be with certain kinds of pairs of values whose product is either 216 (65,536) or 216 - 1
(65,535). When one or both factors has floating-point precision but is only slightly fractional - meaning, it has perhaps one or two decimal places
but is otherwise not "imaginary," to borrow its mathematical meaning - Excel renders the product as 100,000 instead.
winbeta.org - 26.09.2007
Olympic trojan beats Microsoft to Excel patch
Microsoft's decision to hold back an Excel patch from last month's Patch Tuesday may have left millions exposed as attackers target the un-patched
flaw in Excel.
The US Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that Excel file attachments are being used
to spread a trojan which allows a hacker to gain user rights to a PC.
The trojan is packed inside an Excel attachment and
exploits a flaw discovered in multiple versions of Excel in January.
winbeta.org - 11.03.2008
Excel Flaw in Asian Office
Versions
Researchers disclosed another
flaw within Excel on Thursday,
saying it could allow
attackers to take control of a
user's computer. The newest
vulnerability is the third
discovered in the popular
spreadsheet program in the
past month...
betanews.com - 07.07.2006
