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Microsoft Office 2004

Microsoft Office 2004

Entourage, PowerPoint, Excel, Word suite.

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Are you kidding me?!

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Contributed by: jshalmos Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 02:21 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

How is it that MS Office is the only app (that I'm aware of) on the Mac that even comes close to needing an update that "fixes vulnerabilities...that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code." Do they really care anymore?   

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Are you kidding me?! - natenate

Well, you must not be aware of much then. Security holes are everywhere (y'know those security updates from Apple, Firefox, etc.). Just because a patch is released for an exploit does NOT mean that exploit is public knowledge, in fact that is rarely the case. Shame on M$ for continuing to update its software: those bastards.

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Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 04:03 PM PDT


Are you kidding me?! - greglawhorn

How about "shame on Microsoft for needing regular security updates in an office suite"? It's not an OS; it's not server software. I can even understand browser updates, but word processing?!?!?

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Tuesday, August 08 2006 @ 05:25 PM PDT


Are you kidding me?! - Maat

Don't forget that Entourage is also part of Office and in v2004 somewhat integrated with the other office programs...

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Wednesday, August 09 2006 @ 04:03 AM PDT