Those old Microsoft Office and Corel Draw files you have hanging around? Dangerous. Shouldn't open 'em. And once you install the latest Office 2003 Service Pack, you won't be able to. "After you ...

The bottom line seems to be that Office 2003 has, or at least could have, some baked-in vulnerabilities relating to these file formats and that playing with these formats, especially files from ...

Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said ...

Microsoft, which last month outlined the issue in an updated support bulletin and offered a head-scratching workaround, said older Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Corel Draw file formats are blocked ...

Need to access older versions of certain Office files and suddenly can't? Did you install SP3? If you need to access old Microsoft file formats for early versions of Word, Excel, or Powerpoint -- but ...

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"Right decision wrongly handled" is the essence of Microsoft's mea culpa on the Office 2003 Service Pack 3 file-blocking fiasco. More than 430 words into the defense of Microsoft's position, senior ...

I've been working a lot lately on a project that as part of its functionality writes over or deletes files in a sub-folder in the Program Files folder in Windows XP Pro. Trying to delete the files or ...