Microsoft will probably stop supporting Office 97 in the next year. With no support, your out of luck when the next macro virus, security vulnerablity comes along.
I'm guessing here but if your companies reasoning is financial Why not push OpenOffice(http://www.openoffice.org/)? Security problems are almost a mute point, and you don't have to worry about forced upgrades. -Jason Yates -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 1:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Security impact because of old software Hi all, my company just decided to freeze MS Office for the next four years. This means no more new licenses. If you just have Office 97, you have to stick to it for this time. I want to comment this from the security perspective. The only thing I can come up with is the issue of security patches. If a vulnerability in Office 97 or 2000 is discovered but MS does no further development, gives no more support for old versions, does not put out a patch, bad luck for you. But are there other more important more realistic security issues in the MS office freeze situation? -- Tom
