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support.microsoft.com - 10/15/2008
Description of the Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update
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The Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update contains several changes that improve security, stability, reliability, and performance. Additionally, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code.  ...
microsoft.com - 10/15/2008
Download details: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update
— microsoft.com — To install this update Print this page if you want to use it as a reference when... you are offline. Quit any applications that are running, including all Office applications, Microsoft Messenger, and Office Notifications, because they might interfere ... (more) Download details: Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac ...

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microsoft.com - 10/16/2008
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-057 – Critical: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel Could ...
— microsoft.com — This security update resolves three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code... execution if a user opens a specially crafted Excel file. An attacker who successfully exploited these vulnerabilities could ... (more) Microsoft Security Bulletin MS08-057 – Critical: ...

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techradar.com - 10/22/2008
Microsoft: iPhone and Android are no threat | News | TechRadar UK
— techradar.com — Windows Mobile has nothing to fear from either the iPhone or Google Android, says Microsoft's John Curran.... TechRadar asked the Windows business lead for Microsoft UK how he saw Windows Mobile, Android and the iPhone divvying up market share in three ... (more) Microsoft: iPhone and Android are no threat | News | ...

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Microsoft Office updated to 12.1.3
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — ... It got a bit lost in the hustle and bustle of yesterday's announcements, but there was an update released for Microsoft Office 2008; the 12.1.3 update, weighing in at 154 MB, provides the usual slew of security fixes and bug repairs that you know and love. Some crashing bugs have been squashed (including one that affected documents with embedded PDF images that I've seen once or twice), chart performance is improved across the entire suite, PowerPoint gets a fix to address file timestamp issues, and Excel comes in with multiple fixes for file saving and corruption problems. ...

Microsoft Posts Patches on the Heels of Apple’s Security & Firmware Updates
TheAppleBlog — ... Office 2008 for Mac or Office 2007 for Windows so that you can open, edit, and save them in earlier versions of Office for Mac. The download is 44MB and should be installed by anyone running Office 2004 or Office v. X on OS X 10.4.9 or higher. Next up is Office 2004 with a 13MB patch to version 11.5.2 which addresses vulnerabilities which could allow attackers to run code on your system. Similarly, Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac kicks it up to version 12.1.3 which addresses similar vulnerabilities as the Office 2004 update in this ...

Office 2008's 12.1.3 update improves security, stability
Infinite Loop — [image] Microsoft has released its Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update ( direct DMG Link ). The update affects security, stability and performance. Most importantly, the update patches critical vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to perform remote code execution via Excel. When exploited, this opening "could take complete control of an affected system," according to Microsoft's security page (pointed out to us by TUAW ), which sounds a bit alarmist to our Mac ears. In non-security areas, the update appears to improve stability and avoid ...

Microsoft Office 2008 12.1.3 and 2004 11.5.2 Updates
TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us — ... The recently released Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.3 Update tackles a major security risk, improves Office stability within Leopard, and makes some small performance enhancements. Once again, kudos to Microsoft for excellent release notes, and it's great to see the company continuing to provide bug fixes for Office 2004, which still has many users. ...

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