Microsoft tool to protect Office files
BetaNews | at | by Mike
Microsoft is readying a new file conversion tool for Office that is designed to strip out malicious code embedded in a document. The company says businesses will be safer from exploits in older file formats, and, in turn, Microsoft could see more upgrades to Office 2007.The tool, dubbed Microsoft Office Isolated Conversion Environment, or MOICE, can be associated to the older file formats like those used in Office 2003. When the document is accessed, it is upconverted by MOICE and handed off to the new version of Office.