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caz -> MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 13:02:45)

Microsoft's Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 blocks you from opening certain file formats that MS deems less secure - including its own.

The service pack will block access to files including some Office Excel 2003, MS Office PowerPoint 2003 and MS Office Word 2003, as well as Corel Draw formats.

MS work around

And they wonder why sales of Macs are doing very well indeed. [&:]



BobbyDouglas -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 13:41:51)

MS needs to start releasing everything to small groups of people for a couple months before something goes live.

There are a lot of formats I've never even heard of (.wk1, .wk4, .wj3, wk1 FMT, .wks, .wk3, wk3 FM3, .wj2, .wq1, .fm3, .wj1), however, that page claims that ppt and pps are blocked (but that might be only those made in older versions of PowerPoint).

What's the point of blocking files, if it is assumed that the average user runs anti-virus?

You have to go through 12 registry steps in order to get this fixed, how are people expected to be familiar enough with the registry to do something like this? Where's the simple fix executable? Ahhhh!!



caz -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 16:31:53)

A nasty suspicious mind might think it's a ploy to make people upgrade to Office 2007 [;)] Maybe even some OpenOffice files will be disabled too?

I think that .wk1, etc are Lotus files.



womble -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 17:04:58)

....and along comes someone with a suspicious mind. [:D]

Which reminds me - I really must get on with setting up a dual boot with Ubuntu which I've been meaning to do for ages...[&:]



jaybee -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 17:34:29)

wk1 and wk3 are Lotus 123 files, some of the others could be Microsoft Works.

I booted MS Office off my machine a year ago and replaced it with Open Office. FrontPage went at the same time and now Expression Web has been given the boot as well. The only MS stuff I have on my desktop is XP Pro and the IE browsers for checking sites.

If I could find equivalent software I would switch to the Mac full time.



mtfm -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 19:11:21)

So, if a person has MS office 2003, they potentially can't open a file that they themselves created?

And if versions 2003 and before may be blocked, and anything after 2003 might not work properly, what's that leave?



jaybee -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/2/2008 20:51:41)

Open Office? [;)]



caz -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/3/2008 12:13:44)

This is the best (most succinct) quote about the whole fiasco that I have seen - so far [:D]

quote:

Microsoft has clearly gone off the deep end and should be medicated for its own good.


I'm still running Office 2000 <hehe>



jaybee -> RE: MS Office 2003 service pack disables... (1/3/2008 16:29:42)

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I'm still running Office 2000 <hehe>


Service Pack 211 will be released for that next week [;)]



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