Microsoft has released Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.7 Update which, according to Microsoft, “fixes a critical vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.”
The update applies to Office 2004 Standard Edition, Office 2004 Student and Teacher Edition, Office 2004 Professional Edition, Word 2004, Excel 2004, PowerPoint 2004, and Entourage 2004.
More info and download link here.
MacDailyNews Note: Do you really enjoy Microsoft-induced security problems and bloated, old, overpriced code on your Mac? Many Mac users think they need Evil Incarnate, er… Microsoft Office, but they really don’t. Give Apple’s free 30-day iWork ’08 trial a try and see for yourself.
Quote Zune Tang:
“I continue to bask in the warm glow of a REAL OS: Windows Vista. Ultimate. Dork.”
I never knew Vista came in an Ultimate Dork version as well. So what’s the version count now? 20, 34, or 71? Guess you learn something every day.
</SARCASM>
Good, serves you dumbasses right for putting M$ crap on your Mac
And yes you CAN alternatives/file formats that will import into Office and Mac software like NeoOffice just fine.
And if you have to send or recieve your work from a Windows loser to be edited/altered instead of a PDF. THEN YOUR A FRIGGING PEON!!!
Mac users are not peons!!
Believe it or not, there are features in MS Office that aren’t in iWork, and features that some people need in order to work with documents in their businesses.
I often use Track Changes in Word. That feature was not available in the previous version of Pages, which made it a non-factor to me, although I like Pages. And don’t go on about sending PDFs – that doesn’t work well when several people are reviewing documents and making changes and comments.
If iWork has the features I need AND is fully compatible with Word docs – including features like Track Changes, auto paragraph numbering, etc., then I’ll be excited to switch. I’m downloading the iWork 08 trial now to test it.
Fortunately, I’m not worried about Microsoft’s vulnerabilities because I doubt they can really affect my Mac. I’ll apply the patch, once I have verified that it won’t destroy my system. If iWork can do what I need, I’ll switch.
And there’s always more from the Dark Side:
Microsoft delivers critical fixes for Windows, IE and Excel
Everything but the kitchen sink
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco
Published Tuesday 14th August 2007 23:42 GMT
Microsoft’s monthly patch fest for August included fixes for 14 security holes, including critical flaws in Internet Explorer, Excel and in Windows components such as XML Core Services, Vector Markup Language and Object Linking and Embedding automation.
Six of the nine bulletins issued as part of this month’s Patch Tuesday were labeled “critical,” Microsoft’s highest severity rating. They covered a total of eight flaws. The remaining six flaws were included in bulletins rated “important.”
Enjoy your dangerous crapfest, Windows suckers.
I continue to bask in the warm glow of a REAL OS: Windows Vista.
You know, ZT has a point.
PC users do bask around whatever MS offers.
Like bugs bask around a light.
Pity the poor things, they just don’t know any better…
MDN – You folks should be able to come up with a better “take” (or “Note” in this case) than one that is an ad for iWork ’08. Every time there’s a story about MS Office, we get the same “ad” for iWork ’08. Not very original…
CRITICAL vulnerability for a 4-year old app? WTF?
Microsoft – You Can’t Polish A Turd
Ahhhh 2004 may it R.I.P.
I sent it out in the trash last week.
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“Believe it or not, there are features in MS Office that aren’t in iWork, and features that some people need in order to work with documents in their businesses.”
No smart buisnesse or person uses just one method to achieve their results.
M$ software is always insecure. The exploits in OfficeMac have been severe so many times that it’s not worth being held hostage to a few features.
“Fortunately, I’m not worried about Microsoft’s vulnerabilities because I doubt they can really affect my Mac.”
That’s where your wrong. I suggest you really investigate how serious past OfficeMac vunerabilites has been for Mac users.
You see, I’ve seen it over and over, especially for OfficeMac over the years.
Microsoft is playing a game, it’s called “Stockholm Syndrome”, they play it with their Windows users and they try to play it with Mac users who use OfficeMac.
Read up on Stockholm Syndrome, it’s a destructive relationship where the abuser (Microsoft) abuses their customers and the customers that hope one day everything would be better, but it never does.
Sort of like the destructive relationship between a wife and a wife beater. She hopes she can change him, but he keeps the abuse up knowing that’s what keeps her around.
The best thing would be not to hope M$ will finally make a safe and secure software to use, but to change to something that is safe and secure.
You got a Mac, that’s step one. Step two is to ditch M$ altogether. Then your truly free!
Won’t upgrade pass 11.3.5 until something goes wrong with my current Office 2004.
I’m by no means a creative professional or church newsletter maker.
Office 2004 is the one which saved me from my IT Manager fury when he found out I’m abandoning my work PC for a Mac. (He goes like from WHAT??? (Reply: But, I still use Office…) to mmm… fair enough…
iWork just won’t fulfill my needs. Sure it looks dazzling, it just doesn’t provide those small but necessary features.
What are some of the freeware alternatives that work with Word?
> What are some of the freeware alternatives that work with Word?
Well, there’s NeoOffice.
http://www.neooffice.org/
If it’s just for Word, there’s AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com/
OK so I went through all the information and found that the whole process was just too bloody complicated. For one I thing I don’t even have the right plug-in. So I have to go through the process twice. So that’s why Windows’ users are always getting screwed. Microsoft makes the whole process just too damn difficult.
What Microsoft calls a patch I call the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Screw you Microsoft, I just wish I didn’t have to use your bloated Office, but I have no choice.
MDN word “easy” yeah right.
$M Hate Machine = Idiot. Some of us have no choice.
Now don’t forget to raise your lower lip before you switch off the light. If you know what a light switch is. That’s where the bright thing is. You have to unscrew the bright bulb and then insert your middle finger in the socket to turn it off.
Geez. Office may have a lot of bloat, but I’m fairly sure that a $400 software suite can do some things that a $80 suite can’t. Duh.
OTOH, most people really, truly don’t need all the capabilities of Microsoft Office. There’s a reason why times new roman is the most common printed font in the world: it’s the default font of word and similar word processing programs. Most people don’t know enough or don’t care enough to even change the frakkin fonts!
I think Apple may be hitting a sweet spot with the iWork suite. It has more than enough features for a consumer user without being intimidating, is compatible with word so others can read what you’ve written, and is a fifth the cost of Office. Hardcore power users will continue to use office because they have to; they deserve our empathy, NOT our scorn! Most people out there like don’t have to. I’ll have to download the demo and give it a fair chance.
@ Zune Wang: you shoulda quit while you were ahead.
NOT a good day for your drivel.
Ba-bye as Ms. White used to say.
RIP Merv.