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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by checkyoursudo on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:29PM (#17971041)
The last MS Office I paid for was 2007. The last time I used Word 2007 was 2010 or 2011 maybe. I am 100% lacking in any experience in Word features, at least since then, and I hardly remember anything from Word 2007.

As a lawyer, I deal with other people's Word products all day every day. What Word features am I missing out on? I am genuinely curious and not trying to be snarky in any way.

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by type0 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @01:51PM (#17971218)
> What Word features am I missing out on?

All those pesky macros that would allow your computer to be infected

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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by pjmlp on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:03PM (#17971360)
You mean like those curl url | sh advices?
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by checkyoursudo on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:32PM (#17971633)
You can choose to install malware on any system you control, or be tricked into doing so.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by pjmlp on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @02:59PM (#17971937)
Since around 2007 that those pesky macros only run if the user takes the same effort as typing curl | sh.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by Dylan16807 on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @03:48PM (#17972485)
"Do you want your document to work yes/no?" is a lot more likely to trick people than asking them to input a console command.
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Re:Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Wi... by pjmlp on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @04:00PM (#17972621)
The actual message asks if the user wants to enable macros, while stating it is dangerous to enable them for unknown documents.

Not seen Word in a while I guess.

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