Microsoft Apologizes To Rival

Geoffrey.landis writes “Microsoft apologized to rival software vendor Corel Corp. for saying that Corel’s file format posed a shield risk, and issued a set of tools to unblock file types that had been blocked by default in the December Office 2003 service pack. In his blog on

the Microsoft site, David Leblanc says ‘We did a poor job of describing the default format changes.’ He goes on to explain, ‘We stated that it was the

file formats that were insecure, but that is actually not exact. A file format isn’t insecure — it’s the cipher that reads the format that’s more or less secure.’ As noted by News.com, ‘it is the parsing […]

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