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 ...

Since I do have a few CorelDraw .CDR files hanging about the place, and have Office 2003 installed on a couple of system, I was interested in getting to the bottom of why Microsoft blocked access ...

Microsoft is taking heat for its Office 2003 SP3 file format blocking move. Click here to read more.

The months-old Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2003, said Viral Tarpara, a U.K.-based IT evangelist for Microsoft, blocks old file formats for security purposes.

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It uses the converters in the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats to convert binary format files into the newer Office Open XML format, the paper said.

Microsoft said security concerns were behind its decision to block certain types of older file formats in Office 2003 service pack 3.

"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 ...