MS Office Patches Vulnerabilities, Repairs Problems
File this under computer repair issues a long time in the making - and patches that will be much appreciated by the public.
According to sources, Microsoft this week released updates to both 2004 and 2008 versions of its flagship Microsoft Office for Mac.
The company cited stability and performance improvements in both cases, as well as fixes for vulnerabilities in the applications.
The Windows updates are available immediately at the Microsoft Mactopia download page as well as via Microsoft AutoUpdate.
What does this mean from a Fort Lauderdale computer repair standpoint? Potentially a number of things, security-wise.
Microsoft's release notes say that the Office 2004 for Mac 11.5.1 Update improves stability when opening Word documents that contain a numbered list and updates the Japanese postal code dictionary.
That's on top of fixing vulnerabilities that an attacker could use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
The Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update fixes the same vulnerabilities, as well as fixes an AppleScript issue that prevents running a script from the Script menu without restarting the Office application, speeds up opening the Word application for users with lots of fonts, improves the display of text in Word tables, fixes an issue opening Excel documents when some sheet names include invalid characters, improves number formatting in Excel for some international languages, fixes duplication of events between Entourage and iCal when syncing, and several other small changes.
Hopefully this will result in a reduced need for computer repair and time-consuming problems among Mac and PC users alike.
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