Ars Technica

Office SP3: Block those old, risky files

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 ...
Computerworld

Office 2003 SP3 blocks old file formats

Microsoft Corp. deliberately broke access to older files, including many generated by its own products, to step up security with the newest Office 2003 service pack, a company evangelist said ...
ZDNet

When isn't a File Write Permission? 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. Trying to delete the files or ...
Ars Technica

Cannot copy large file over network even with enough space (Win xP SP3)

source file: 33GB file on network share (off-site hardware)<BR>destination drive: USB external drive w/ 320GB free plugged into a laptop and the next desk over<BR><BR ...