Microsoft is yet again on the verge of finding itself in anti-trust hot water over a feature in its XP software, which could restrict which websites users access. The feature, known as Smart Tags, points users of one application to relevant...
Business customers routinely automate tasks such as generating charts in a spreadsheet by writing individual macros, or small programs called scripts. Macros in Microsoft's Office, for example, are written with Visual Basic for Applications, a...
The problem centers on macros embedded in documents in the Office 2003 beta version. When saved as an XML (Extensible Markup Language) file, the macros can more or less end up anywhere. This means that scanners must search the entire contents of a...
A vulnerability in recent versions of Word could allow hackers to automatically run macros, which are mini-programs typically used to automate routine tasks. Microsoft has issued yet more security alerts, including notice of a "critical" flaw that...
The macro migration tool will convert macros written in Microsoft Excel so that they can be recognised and used in StarOffice Calc, the spreadsheet included in the StarOffice bundle, said Sun. Later this year the company plans to ship an update to...
He said: "You can mitigate the single point of failure by investing in high availability resilient network switches and telecom techniques. Ted Woodhouse, IT director at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said a single point of failure in the...