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Microsoft makes major course reversal, allows Office to run untrusted macros [Updated]

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has stunned core parts of the security community with a decision to quietly reverse course and allow untrusted macros to be opened by default in Word and other Office applications. ( Update on July 11: The company later clarified that the move is temporary.) In …

Microsoft makes major course reversal, allows Office to run untrusted macros

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has stunned core parts of the security community with a decision to quietly reverse course and allow untrusted macros to be opened by default in Word and other Office applications. In February, the software maker announced a major change it said it enacted to …