"Microsoft has warned users that it will drop support for Office 2003 Service Pack 2 in three weeks.
The company has urged customers to upgrade to a newer service pack that was involved in a dust-up earlier this year over blocked file formats. The company's policy is to support an Office service pack for 12 months after it releases a successor. Microsoft rolled out Office 2003 SP3 in September 2007. It always extends that 12-month period to the following month's second Tuesday, the day it usually issues security updates. "Any security updates released on or before October 14 will support both Service Packs 2 and 3," said a Microsoft employee identified only as "David" on a company blog. "Security updates released after October 14 will support only Service Pack 3." Microsoft has patched 14 vulnerabilities in Office 2003 SP2 in the past two months alone." --clip-- More at http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=104759&pagtype=all The source posting is http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/09/22/upcoming-end-of-support-for-office-2003-service-pack-2-sp2.aspx Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
