![]() Today, Bryant said it was a matter of priorities, both in the number of users running Windows software compared to the Mac, and in the threat posed to each group. In May 2009, Microsoft shipped patches for the Windows version of PowerPoint - Office's presentation maker - but delayed fixes for the same flaws in its Mac software until the following month.Īt the time, Microsoft's security team defended the decision by saying that fixes for Windows were finished, but were still being tested on the Mac. Microsoft has delayed security updates for the Mac version of Office before. ![]() ![]() In a second e-mail Wednesday, Bryant said that Office for Mac users were not vulnerable to the same types of attacks, although hackers could try to dupe them into opening malicious RTF (rich text format) documents attached to e-mail messages.
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