While Microsoft is busy patching for the Spectre/Meltdown chip flaws there’s another serious and more easily abused security flaw in Word. It’s fairly simple and not yet detected by any of the anti-virus programs. It’s called ‘SubDoc’ and was discovered by Rhino Security Labs who have gone to the extent of creating a tool to […]
So many patches for Microsoft Office and Windows in this month’s package of bug fixes. Few parts of Windows or Office aren’t patched this month, either directly or indirectly. According to Microsoft there’s ‘only’ 56 patched security holes in their products, this month alone. In reality there’s a lot more patching going on, just how […]
When you update your Outlook rules with Exchange Server, why does it take so damn long and you have to wait? Each time you change your email processing rules, Outlook for Windows/Mac has to update the server. But it takes an unreasonably long time, even when there’s only a few rules being updated across a […]
Back in Excel 2007, Tables were added. That simple name hides a quite different and powerful Excel option that, in our view, Microsoft hasn’t explained very well. Excel is often used for lists and Excel Tables make managing and extending those lists a lot easier. In fact, ‘Excel Lists’ was the name of the Tables […]
Microsoft’s Word Comments feature has popped up in the news again over the break, this time to embarrass Milo Yiannopoulos, a former Brietbart commentator. Mr Yiannopoulos is in a legal battle with his publisher over a proposed book and some of the court papers are now public. What’s catching attention are the editor’s comments in […]
