This Drives Me Nuts

...but not for the reason you might think...

Office 2003 SP3 Blocks Old File Formats

Aside from the obvious disregard for customers that is being displayed, this quote from a Microsoft evangelist is irritating:

The months-old Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2003, said Viral Tapara, a U.K.-based IT evangelist for Microsoft, blocks old file formats for security purposes. Some older file formats, including some from Microsoft, are insecure and do not satisfy new attack vectors that hackers can use to execute malicious code," maintained Tapara. "The decision to block the formats is strictly to protect your machine from being compromised."

This quote describes software that is "unsecure", not "insecure." Insecure software continually asks you, "Are you sure?"

Yeah, I know, I need more important things to think about...