Office 2007 security plans make it crash
Can anyone think of any other company that would purposefully design a program to crash because of a “security” feature? I sure can’t. Microsoft is confident beyond reproach that Vista will be much harder to attack than its predecessors but the Office 2007 team refuses to set any security goals at all.
Microsoft claims it’s because they don’t have any goals to shoot for because either Office 2007 is already so secure or no vulnerabilities have yet been located but I find that hard to believe. As a matter of fact, one security feature was thought to be a flaw as Office 2007 would crash when documents with improper formatting were kept open. The claim regarding that idea is the document could have harbored rouge code that might try to execute so the application according to Microsoft “quits” but I call it a crash.
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