____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 03 January 2008 16:11 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Legacy format FUD
>>
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>>| From CyberTech Rambler (and Slashdot) comes the news that the Office 2003
>>| Service Pack #3 disables (blocks) access to a number of legacy document
>>| formats. Details are in this MS support article. Formats so blocked include
>>| legacy Lotus 1-2-3 and Corel Quattro Pro formats. Why? According to the
>>| Microsoft support article, "By default, these file formats are blocked
>>| because they are less secure. They may pose a risk to you.".
>>|
>>| [...]
>>|
>>| Now it may be entirely possible that these old import filters in Excel are
>>| poorly written and poorly maintained and that Microsoft may be trying to
>>| reduce the overall security exposure of MS Office by ditching old code that
>>| is not strategic for them. But call it that. The MS Office code has the
>>| problem. Don't malign the formats. Don't make up some untenable story that
>>| DIF format is "less secure" and "may pose a risk for you".
>> `----
>>
>> http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/01/legacy-format-fud.html
>>
>
> There does appear to be no depth to which these people will not plumb.
> One has to wonder if Microsoft have ever been honest about anything?
Once a criminal, always a criminal. They lost the ability to feel guilty about
self-serving lies.
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