The Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.2.5 Update fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. This update also fixes issues in Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac and includes all of the improvements released in all previous Office 2004 updates.
Applies to: Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Microsoft Word 2004 for Mac, Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac, Microsoft PowerPoint 2004 for Mac, Entourage 2004.
More info and download link here.
Related MacDailyNews article:
Mac users should not buy Microsoft software (or hardware) – May 16, 2003
More evidence that Microsoft sucks, regardless of what platform you’re running.
“fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code”
That’s what they said for the last 2 updates this year.
WANKERS.
Apple hurry up with Numbers/Charts/iWork ’07 so I can secure my Mac by dropping al MS products.
DONKEYS!
Am I in a time warp?
First we get a blog posting from July 3 about the top 10 beautiful OS X apps.
Now we get yesterday’s news about Office updates.
Slow news day?
Office is the biggest back door into any Mac it’s installed on.
Great! Microsucks, bringing Winblows insecurities to the Macintosh platform. Thanks!
I’ve repeated many times
Don’t use Microsoft products period.
Why is it that EVERY Microsoft update only offers to “fix vulnerabilities” in whatever program is being updated.
Whatever happened to actually adding a new feature more often than once every 2 or 3 years! Geez…
Office is a bloated fat ugly uncontrollable chair-throwing piece of software that has no place on my computer. But of course it is their and I am now just down to Excel when needed…
I will cheer the day I no longer have it on my computer. The world of Apple Mac has moved on. Unlike MS & Office.
I’ll wait to update. Two weeks ago there was an update that screwed up a lot of people. Check with version tracker before you update.
Just wondering–can anyone name a feature they use regularly in Microsoft Word in the 2004 version that isn’t in 5.1?
Spell as you type. After that, I got nuthin’.
I repeat again.
Don’t use Microsoft products on your Mac.
Come on people, be reasonable: When Apple releases an update that fixes vulnerabilities (like they do in almost all of them) its great, but when Microsoft does it means their product stinks… a double standard methinks. I use Microsoft Office for the Mac and think its a great product. I use the PC version at work, and the Mac version I think is better (much more stable). Anyway, although I HATE Microsoft’s Windows products (they do stink), some of their products are good: like Office and the Xbox.
BTW I updated two computers with the update and have not had any problems.
Fair is fair, not everything Microsoft does is evil, not all of their products stink, and Bill Gates is not the Devil (though I am not so sure about Steve Ballmer).
OpJ –
As a former Word 5.1 user who reluctantly switched to Office 2004 when I upgraded to OS X 10.4, I have to admit there ARE a few features that 5.1 doesn’t have that I actually use: the ability to kern type, to change leading in finer than full-point increments, to have letterhead images behind the typing surface.
That said, I miss 5.1 for its ability to stay out of my way. I tried working with columns in Word 2004, and the damn thing kept changing section breaks on me again and again (from page break to continuous) for no reason I can understand.
I also hate the “nanny features” built into the new version of Entourage, especially its refusal to automatically download the graphics in HTML e-mail. It infuriates me that this is a “privacy” feature that can’t be turned off.
Fair is Fair is fair.
see above.
I heard that that MS guarantees this upgrade will be released on time. Boy people are going to be anticipating the release set for 2004.
MDN:
There is a serious factual error in this article, and your clip of it, from one of the major sources of factual errors, the Microsoft Felon:
“overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
is factually incorrect. This should read:
“overwrite the contents of Microsoft Office-Mac for OS X’s memory with malicious code. Fortunately, OS X is a professional grade operating system and ensures that malicious code of this sort is limited to Microsoft Office-Mac for OS X’s memory, in distinct contrast to Microsoft Windows.
In other words, the operating system and other programs are safe on OS X, while they ARE NOT on Microsoft Windows. And the risk of spread on this malicious code to other OS X machines, to date, is ZERO, again, unlike Microsoft Windows (current score: 114,000 and change to ZERO).
Of course, your personal files are at risk on both systems, so this should be taken seriously.”