Comments on: Flaw found in Office 2007

Despite Microsoft's efforts to lock down the update, eEye finds a hole that could let an outsider run malicious software on a PC.

[bob blob]

wait for it...

wait for it...

[bradyme]

Flaw

The hole system is a flaw! Wht do ineed a gig of memory to just run the friken OS + Office! Is 2 gigs just to have a stable system to let me do what I want!! GHAWD!

[suyts]

because......

You need the memory (I don't believe 2 gigs) because it is the whole package and ease of use. If you want to conserve on memory then go get a *nix system. It will do everything and anything that you want it to do. However, you will have to get used to command line interfacing. It is a challenge but can be overcome. If you wish for ease of use, a Mac should fit your needs. Sadly though, you will loose a little functionality despite what some Mac users will tell you. For the whole package, OS, office tools, programing, and database management, gaming, ect.... no one does it better than MS. Vista with Office 2007 combined with the other tools that MS offers... well, as far as I'm concerned, they have raised the bar quite a bit higher.
P.S. For those who may say I haven't experienced the other OS's/companies. I run a Unix server and manage two applications running Oracle database. I did my first programing on a Apple II. I'm here to tell you no one does it better than MS.

[herby67]

2 gigs???

I'm running with one gig, using tons of apps and have almos zero page faults. Taskman shows 830MB of RAM in use (including file cache) and my machine has been on for over a week.
And yes, it needs one gig because you simply can do more things and do them better with more memory, and since RAM is cheap it would be foolish to restrict the capabilities to suit some users that want to run it on 64KB. Move on.

[paulsecic]

love

Why do people love Micro$oft????????????????????????????????????????

[jevenew]

Office Flaw

I see your readers are still searching for that perfect bundle of software; you know the one. That perfect piece of software that all you do is turn on your PC and your job ends. The computer then reads your mind, and selects every different scenario that you might want, and proceeds to do it well.
You do have choices. You might write your own software, then you could blame yourself for the holes you say are in MS Office 2007.

[Microsoft_Facts]

Keep it in perspective...

There are thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of flaws in Microsoft Office products. There is one (1) known macro virus in all other non-Microsoft Office products combine the world over.

The flaw here is Microsoft's monopoly on Office products has been allowed to continue, costing society at large severe harm.

[HandGlad2]

Your perspective is wrong

You've been called on this before but that tiny thing you call your brain seems unable to register the truth.

There have been *MANY* macro flaws in non-MS products complete with "proof-of-concept" code. o

If you want a better perspective I suggest you pull you pull your head out of that warm but smelly receptacle you placed in it because it's obviously given you "tunnel" vision.

[fcekuahd]

You said it.

It's really incredible that Microsoft hasn't been held accountable for all the harm they've done to their customers through all of their security flaws and other glaring bugs.

[zaxt]

Publisher 2007

I have been using Pub 2007 quite a lot for the past three days. Yesterday I started having alot of problems i.e. monitor settings, ITunes, and others. Could this be related to the Pub 2007 problem?