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A word with you, please, Microsoft
If Microsoft's 1976 was all about "hobbyists" and "Altair," then its buzzwords for 2006 were things such as "connected entertainment," "interoperability," "Zune," and "Windows Vista."
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2.1.2007 New Report of A Word Zero Day
We are investigating reports of another new vulnerability in Microsoft Word – initial investigation has shown that this is a different issue to that reported in Microsoft Security Advisory 929433.
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11.12.2006 Why is Microsoft afraid to use the L word?
In discussing the motivation behind its newly launched Windows Server 2008 Foudation product, there’s one word the folks from Microsoft were loathe to mention: Linux.
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1.4.2009 MS investigates Word zero-day
Microsoft has issued a Security Advisory that warns of exploits for a previously unknown (zero day) hole in various versions of Microsoft Word.
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6.12.2006 Firefox 3.0 goes Alpha but little word yet on IE8
Firefox 2 only launched six weeks ago, but there appear to be no plans for a Firefox 2.5 with the alpha, developer version of Firefox 3.0 just made available on Friday.
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10.12.2006 Microsoft warns of new Word attacks
Microsoft has issued yet another security advisory in the wake of new attacks targeting Word.
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10.7.2008 Word 2007 to Feature Built-in Blogging
Joe Friend has posted a rather interesting entry on his site, covering Microsoft's Office 12 Blog feature:
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13.5.2006 Experts Warn of Critical Word Vulnerability
Security experts are warning of a critical vulnerability affecting users of Microsoft Word XP and Word 2003.
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22.5.2006 Google Opens Online Word Processor
Google late Thursday re-opened its Writely beta online word processing application, which the search engine acquired in March. Because the service was being transitioned to Google's servers, it was not accepting new accounts until today.
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19.8.2006 Microsoft to release ODF translator for Word
A Microsoft-sponsored open-source project is expected on Friday to release a translator that will convert file formats between Microsoft Office and rival standard OpenDocument, or ODF.
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3.2.2007 Attackers seize on new zero-day flaw in Word
Just hours after a Microsoft security manager said that the week's updates had patched all in-the-wild threats against Office applications, the company late yesterday acknowledged that another bug in Word is being used by hackers to commandeer computers.
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16.2.2007 Microsoft confirms Windows-Word attacks
Microsoft Corp. yesterday warned of a critical vulnerability that affects users of Word running on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 SP1 -- several weeks after one security company first reported an exploit and a day after a second vendor confirmed ongoing attacks.
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24.3.2008 Microsoft permitted to continue Word sales for now
Microsoft Word fans across the world can rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief today as Microsoft has won a temporary stay, allowing Word sales to continue.
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4.9.2009 XP SP3 and Vista SP1 Are in the Clear, Word Is Still Out on Windows 7
While Windows XP SP3 and Windows Vista are in the clear, word is still out on Windows 7, when it comes down to antitrust issues.
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13.3.2008 Microsoft Confirms Windows 7 for 2010 – No Word on Windows 7 M2
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 7 is right on track for release in 2010. Concomitantly with the leaked details associated with Windows 7 Milestone 1 dropped by the Redmond company to select partners in January 2008, a potential timetable for the availability of the successor of Windows Vista was also made public.
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12.3.2008Web 2.0 is the millionth English word, word 999,998 is n00b
It seems like the world should have passed this mark a long time ago but as of June 10th 2009, "Web 2.0", became the official 1 millionth word to
enter the English language. It is defined as "
he next generation of web products and services, coming soon to a browser near you". Other words
that almost made the claim as the one millionth word were 999,999, "Jai Ho!", which was made popular from the movie Slum Dog millionaire. Also
another notable word that is infamous in the gaming world, n00b, is officially word number 999,998. It's also the only mainstream English word
that contains two numerals.
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neowin.net - 11.06.2009
Word 2003 and Earlier Still Vulnerable to E-mail Attacks
The effectiveness of a patch
issued last September for a
Microsoft Word vulnerability,
where .DOC files opened in
Word 2003 and earlier versions
via Internet Explorer or
Outlook could enable remote
code execution, is being
called into question today...
betanews.com - 06.12.2006
Judge orders Microsoft to stop selling Word
On Tuesday, a judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, its flagship word processing software and one of the main components of the Microsoft
Office System - namely part of Word 2003 and Word 2007. This also now extends to Word 2010 which contains the same feature set. Judge Leonard Davis
of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that "prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the
United States any Microsoft Word products that have the capability of opening .XML, .DOCX or DOCM files (XML files) containing custom XML," according
to a statement released by attorneys for the plantiff, i4i, CNET reports. Microsoft stated that it planned to appeal the verdict.
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neowin.net - 12.08.2009
Microsoft permitted to continue Word sales for now
Microsoft Word fans across the world can rejoice and breathe a sigh of relief today as Microsoft has won a temporary stay, allowing Word sales to
continue. In August 2009, a judge ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, its flagship word processing software and one of the main components of the
Microsoft Office System. i4i sued Microsoft in March 2007 claiming that Microsoft violated its 1998 patent (No. 5,787,449) for a document system that
"eliminated the need for manually embedded formatting codes." I4i Chairman Loudon Owen said last month that he would like to see a version of Word
come out without the technology in question.
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neowin.net - 04.09.2009
Symantec Discovers New Word Attack
Microsoft is investigating
reports of a new zero-day
attack on Microsoft Word, and
is aware of "very limited
attacks" exploiting the
vulnerability. Worse yet, it
is not related to three other
flaws in Word unpatched by
Microsoft, says Symantec...
betanews.com - 26.01.2007
Microsoft: Run Word in 'Safe
Mode'
Microsoft has advised users of
Word to run the application in
Safe Mode in order to protect
against "zero-day"
attacks. The recommendation
comes after the discovery of a
serious flaw in the word
processor that could result in
code execution...
betanews.com - 24.05.2006
Creative Redefines 'Podcast'
The word "podcast" --
a combination of iPod and
broadcast -- has become the
latest tech term to enter our
growing lexicon, being named
the 2005 word of the year by
the New Oxford American
Dictionary. But Creative,
unhappy that the word promotes
its rival, has redefined
podcast as "Personal On
Demand broadCast."..
betanews.com - 10.01.2006
Microsoft Confirms Another Word Zero-Day Flaw
The latest flaw comes just
days after the software maker
issued a security advisory to
warn customers against opening
Word documents from untrusted
sources. The two
vulnerabilities are entirely
unrelated.
Microsoft has not yet issued
a formal prepatch advisory
but, in a blog entry, Security
Program Manager Scott Deacon
listed affected software
versions as Word 2000, Word
2002, Word 2003 and the Word
Viewer 2003. Microsoft Word
2007 is not affected by the
second vulnerability.
Microsoft suggests that
users "do not open or save
Word files," even those that
arrive unexpectedly from
trusted sources.
"From the initial reports
and investigation we can
confirm that the vulnerability
is being exploited on a very,
very limited and targeted
basis," Deacon added.
According to a US-CERT
advisory, the latest bug is a
memory corruption issue that
occurs when a Word file is
rigged with malformed data
structures.
jcxp.net - 13.12.2006
Microsoft files emergency motion in Word vs i4i case
On Friday afternoon, Microsoft filed an emergency motion with the US District Court for Eastern Texas in a desperate try to block a ruling that could
force it to stop selling its flagship word processing software, Microsoft Word in 60 days. i4i successfully sued Microsoft in 2007 for infringing on
it's patent for "custom XML", a product that is integrated into many of Microsoft's products, including Word 2007 and 2003, .NET and Windows
Vista.
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neowin.net - 18.08.2009
12 Time-Saving Tips for Microsoft Word
Samuel Dean: Despite the availability of many excellent, free word processors many of us still spend most of our writing time in Microsoft Word. It tends to be the most compatible tool
you can choose to exchange documents with others, and lots of people are even forced to use it by dictatorial IT departments. In this post, Ill round
up some good tips that can make you more productive and save you lots of time in Word.
winbeta.org - 23.02.2008
i4i: We aren't out to take Microsoft down
I4i Chairman Loudon Owen, the winner of a major injunction against Microsoft has said that his goal is not to get Microsoft Word pulled from shelves.
Owen said to ZDnet on Wednesday that "he is one of the hundreds of millions of people who uses Word and the other Microsoft Office tools every
day.". This should be the case seeing as the software that i4i actually offers is only an add on to Microsoft Word. "We're not seeking to stop
Microsoft's business and we're not seeking to interfere with all the users of Word out there," Owen said to ZDnet this Wednesday.
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neowin.net - 13.08.2009
Yet Another MS Word Flaw Surfaces
On Sunday, Microsoft
acknowledged the existence of
another vulnerability in Word
2003, though declined to
release details on the nature
of this new find, other than
to say it's different than
the discovery of a heap
overflow trigger last week by
security research firm eEye...
betanews.com - 12.12.2006
Benchmarking Microsoft Word From 95 To 2007
Andrew Ziem takes a close look at Microsoft Word performance in a
benchmark with 4500 measurements in 5 categories covering 6 versions and 12 years of releases to determine whether Word has become slower or
faster over the years.
winbeta.org - 23.07.2008
Intel: Nehalem 45 nm Processors On Track for November
Based on the initial word we're receiving from the Fall Intel Developers' Forum in San Francisco this afternoon, there are no major surprises other
than the lack of surprises. There is no delay in the company's plans to roll out the first commercial 45 nm processors, code-named Penryn, this
November as scheduled...
betanews.com - 19.09.2007
MS investigates Word zero-day
Microsoft has issued a Security
Advisory that warns of
exploits for a previously
unknown (zero day) hole in
various versions of Microsoft
Word.
According to
an e-mail statement from the
company's public relations
firm, Microsoft has knowledge
of "limited 'zero-day'
attacks using a vulnerability
in Microsoft Word 2000,
Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft
Office Word 2003, Microsoft
Word Viewer 2003, Microsoft
Word 2004 for Mac, and
Microsoft Word 2004 v. X for
Mac, as well as Microsoft
Works 2004, 2005, and 2006.
The company's
published advisory doesn't
have much more information
than that, except to say that
victims would have to open a
malicious Word file with "a
malformed string," that could
then "corrupt system memory
in such a way that an attacker
could execute arbitrary
code."
neowin.net - 06.12.2006
Disagreement Over '0-Day'
Word Worm
Last weekend's disclosure of
an alleged security
vulnerability in Microsoft
Word 2000, exploited by a new
version of an old worm, is
raising questions over what
constitutes the severity of an
exploit. Is it the degree to
which we know about it, or the
number of systems out there it
could possibly hurt?..
betanews.com - 07.09.2006
Symantec Finds Exploit in Doc Created with Word 2004 for Mac
Another Patch Tuesday, another patched vulnerability pairs up with an exploit in the wild.
This Tuesday, Microsoft issued a patch that
closed a critical vulnerability in multiple editions of its popular word processor, including Word 2000, Word XP and Word for the Mac. Symantec
reported that it found an exploit for said vulnerability the next day. " Taking a closer look at that vulnerability, we confirmed that this
document was in fact exploiting the same vulnerability ," said researcher Orla Cox. Symantec obtained a suspicious Word document that crashed
every version of the application except the newest, Word 2007, when opened. After it examined the document created with the edition of Word included
with Office for Mac 2004, Symantec found that the document included shell code and three pieces of malware.
neowin.net - 12.10.2007
Open-source Developers Set out Software Road Map for 2020
A group of open-source software advocates set out a road map for the software industry through 2020 at the Open World Forum conference in Paris on
Tuesday.
The authors of the report, "2020 FLOSS Roadmap", made a number of predictions about the role of free, libre and
open-source software (FLOSS) in 2020, and 80 recommendations for the industry. Their use of the French word "libre" (free as in unfettered) clears
up the ambiguity inherent in the English word "free," which can also mean without cost.
winbeta.org - 03.12.2008
Report: Companies use Word out of habit, not necessity
Companies may use Microsoft Word for word processing out of habit rather than necessity and are beginning to consider other alternatives as the Web
has changed the way people create and share documents, according to a Forrester Research report...
winbeta.org - 12.01.2009
Google Opens Online Word
Processor
Google late Thursday re-opened
its Writely beta online word
processing application, which
the search engine acquired in
March. Because the service was
being transitioned to
Google's servers, it was not
accepting new accounts until
today...
betanews.com - 19.08.2006
