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Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update
Microsoft releases patches for most of their products on a monthly schedule, on the second Tuesday of the month specifically. I'm telling you this because today is the second Tuesday of February and Microsoft has a gift for all you Office 2004 for the Mac users: a patch for a critical vulnerability (insert obligatory Microsoft joke here).Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.4.0 Update addresses, 'a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.' Nobody wants malicious code on their computer, so if you're running Office 2004 for Mac on your Mac, apply this update as soon as possible. Office 2008 for Mac does not have this vulnerability.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tyler Darko said 6:31PM on 2-12-2008
only four years too late...
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dagamer34 said 6:57PM on 2-12-2008
I'd rather they fix Office 2008 and it's problem with Spaces.
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Designr said 6:51PM on 2-12-2008
Yes but, when are they going to make ERAGE work?
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chris said 6:53PM on 2-12-2008
Where the F is the update to make Office 2008 leopard compatible!?!? I'm sick of word not working in notebook view with spaces being enabled.
I want to switch to space 2, word wants to go wherever the f it feels like. I want to use expose, my tabs in my notebook view want to go away.
Ugh.
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umijin said 9:11PM on 2-12-2008
I wonder when they make these updates actually installable on my PowerBook?
Since last summer, none of the updaters can find anything to update, though the apps are right there.
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bobm said 11:02PM on 2-12-2008
I wish it was to make Entrourage work with OWA, sadly that's still broken.
It's the only reason I still have my parallels VM because I can't get to email otherwise (and I really don't like the web interface so that's not a workable option).
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Tim H said 7:51AM on 2-13-2008
bobm said...
"I wish it was to make Entrourage work with OWA, sadly that's still broken."
Not sure what your problem is. It took some doing, but I got it working just fine (Entourage 2004).
Since that's the only way I have other than OWA to get into my company's e-mail system, I was glad I finally figured it out.
What, specifically is wrong?
skyhawkmatthew said 12:12AM on 2-13-2008
"a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code."
Isn't that what Microsoft has had as the blurb for every Office X and 2004 update they have released?
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ABM said 10:24AM on 2-13-2008
What I want to know is why they can't roll all the previous updates into one combo updater? To install the 11.4.0 update, you first need to install 11.3.9, which needs 11.3.8, which won't install without 11.3.7, which is unusable without 11.3.6 which won't work unless you've put in 11.3.5. I love the idea of typing my password in six times to upgrade a fresh install of Office...
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Mohammed Sarwar said 3:26PM on 2-13-2008
2008 is nicer
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Cathy Vaughn said 4:40PM on 2-13-2008
I downloaded and installed the 11.4.0 update for MS Office 2004 and the Office updater log confirms the install took effect.
However, each application (Via "Get Info" for Word, PowerPoint, Entourage and Excel) shows all those applications as earlier versions (11.3.8).
Are the version numbers supposed to change on each individual program, too? If so, how can I make that happen?
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Kurt said 5:50PM on 2-13-2008
I think so - mine show 11.4.0.