Microsoft, justifiably, has appear under a great deal of criticism for blocking Office 2003 end users; entry to older file formats — even if it was in the name of security. But it looks like the public outcry did some good,
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Genuine Office 2010, a Senior Developer with the Microsoft Office Trustworthy Computing Group, published to his personal blog on January 4 a number of links via which Office 2003 Service Pack (SP) 3 users can continue to use the older formats. LeBlanc pointed to the .reg files customers can use to change the security settings for the patched apps,
Office 2007 Ultimate, as well as links restore the blocked Word, Excel, PowerPoint and CorelDraw file types. And on January 4, Microsoft updated the Knowledge Base article about these file types to reflect ways end users can continue to entry the older formats.LeBlanc said:“I want to emphasize that we;re not removing support – we;re making the default safer. If you;re among the customers who do need to be opening these formats,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, we will continue to support you. We also recognize that we have not made any of this as usable as we;d like, and we apologize that this hasn;t been as well documented or as easy as you need it to be. We;re also going to take a hard look at how we can do better in the future.”Given that Microsoft;s initial decision to block the older Office formats made it look like the company was trying to force customers to use the newer Workplace Open XML (OOXML) ones — perish the thought,
Buy Office 2007! — Microsoft;s file-format about-face was an especially savvy decision. Microsoft doesn;t need any more bad press about OOXML before the February ISO standards vote than it has already gotten ….There;s no question that Workplace increasingly has become a hacker target. Microsoft is looking for ways to make the product more secure. But mucking with customers; accessibility to their own files isn;t the way to go.