Those old Microsoft Office and Corel Draw files you have hanging around? Dangerous. Shouldn't open 'em. And once you install the latest Office 2003 Service Pack, you won't be able to. "After you ...

Microsoft is taking heat for its Office 2003 SP3 file format blocking move. Click here to read more.

It uses the converters in the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats to convert binary format files into the newer Office Open XML format, the paper said.

Microsoft said security concerns were behind its decision to block certain types of older file formats in Office 2003 service pack 3.

The months-old Service Pack 3 (SP3) for Office 2003, said Viral Tarpara, a U.K.-based IT evangelist for Microsoft, blocks old file formats for security purposes.

Creating an XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO file Create your own XP SP3 slipstreamed ISO. Detailed step-by-step instructions. Written by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Senior Contributing Editor ...

When its SP3? I've been working a lot lately on a project that as part of its functionality writes over or deletes files in a sub-folder in the Program Files folder in Windows XP Pro.