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Microsoft Office 2004 update 11.4.1

by Cory Bohon Mar 16th 2008 at 8:00AM


If you're still using Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, then it is time to fire up the updater because there is a critical update awaiting you and your copy of Office. Here's what the AutoUpdate software says:

This update fixes a vulnerability that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code. For more information about this update, see the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (KB949357).

If you use update Automatically, then you may already have the update; otherwise, you can open an Office application and choose "Downloads and updates" from the Help menu. For full information about this update, you can look at the Microsoft KB article.


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BlackSmileFR

Please Do not buy Office 2008 it's incredible!!
No seriously it's full of bugs, slow and nothing changes as 2007 for windows does (interface). The update they made a few time ago change nothing on my computer (spaces and expose still crappy).
+ No support for Mathtype ; no support for Office 2007 equation (lol ; that's the funniest).
After all that noise they made about it, such a big company : it's scary
So vote for NeoOffice and iWork

March 17 2008 at 5:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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BlackSmileFR

Oops missing
and/ or keep office 2004

March 17 2008 at 5:46 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
punkassjim

I love the fact that this tech bulletin applies to SO MANY versions of Office. Seems to affect everything back to Office 2000 on Windows. That's a long time for a vulnerability to be in existence, even if no one found it till now.

March 17 2008 at 12:21 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
icruise

Funny, I've never had that happen (and I use Office daily in my job).

March 16 2008 at 6:16 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
icruise

JSW -- I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard lockups, but Office 2004 has an issue where you hit a key and then nothing will happen for quite a while unless you hit another key or move the mouse. I believe this actually occurs on both PowerPC and Intel computers, so I don't think it's related to Rosetta. I remember complaining about it when Office first came out.

And I question the claim that Excel is slower on a MBA than a 5-year-old PowerBook (which one are we talking about here, Peter?) For a long time, I used a 12" PowerBook G4 as my mobile and a 1.83Ghz Intel iMac as my main computer, and Office was clearly faster on the iMac. It's even faster on my new MacBook Pro (although it is admittedly no speed demon on any machine).

March 16 2008 at 3:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jsw

I'm not sure what you mean by keyboard lockups, but Office 2004 has an issue where you hit a key and then nothing will happen for quite a while unless you hit another key or move the mouse.

I've never had that happen, but when I moved from my old Powerbook to my new MacBook Pro, suddenly Word would simply stop taking keyboard input and block system-wide keyboard inputs (e.g., Alt-Tab). It's most common when the search window is up, but it happens at other times as well. The mouse still works, so I just click on the desktop and back on the Word window and can type again, but it's annoying. Maybe it's Leopard, since that borked all sorts of things (mostly in iCal and Applescript, which suggests what Apple's priorities are), but since the problem goes so directly to the input, I'm guessing it's Rosetta.

March 16 2008 at 6:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Payne

WHY IS EXCEL SLOWER ON MY WIFE'S MACBOOK AIR THAN OLD EXCEL WAS ON HER 5 YEAR OLD POWERBOOK?

March 16 2008 at 2:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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jsw

One word: Rosetta. Office 2004 is built for PowerPC, and the Intel Macs run PowerPC applications through a translator, which slows things down and (in my experience) creates some odd behavior in Office generally, or at least in Word, which is what I use for client compatibility. The problems for me are keyboard lockups mostly, which can be fixed by clicking out to a different program and then back into Office. Annoying, but not fatal.

March 16 2008 at 2:56 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ed

And yet, another vote here for NeoOffice. It kicks Microsoft word 2008 ass.

March 16 2008 at 1:30 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
rob

@3 : the X11.app in leopard is pretty broken. you can download updates to X11 for leopard at xquartz.macports.org.

someday apple will pick up these changes and release them thru software updater.

March 16 2008 at 11:35 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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goat

Another vote for NeoOffice!

March 16 2008 at 11:44 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Unregistered

Thanks for the info!
I think I shall go try iWork and NeoOffice before I even think of Office 2008.

March 17 2008 at 11:50 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Unregistered

Thank God there's Open Office (for my iBook on 10.4).
Unfortunately I don't know how to get it working with the X11 in 10.5 on my mac mini (considering getting Office 2008)

March 16 2008 at 10:53 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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james

that's one reason why i swear by neooffice, neooffice, neooffice! www.neooffice.org.

unrelated... wouldn't this post have been news, oh, three days ago?

March 16 2008 at 11:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Luigi193

We wouldn't want our memory overwritten with malicious code now would we?

March 16 2008 at 9:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Sam

I'd be skeptical to upgrade to 2008. Its slow as hell and isn't as intuitive or ground breaking as 2007. People have been giving 2007 flak for a while now, but their fundamental design changes actually made it easier to find things that you didn't know existed. 2008 isn't any of that, and the coding is horrible. MacBU needs a bigger budget or to work more closely with the actual apple, inc.

March 16 2008 at 9:25 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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