Word 2007 crashes are a feature, not a bug
Found on The Inquirer on Friday, 13 April 2007
Security vulnerabilities which cause Word 2007 to crash and burn have been defended by the spinsters at Microsoft.
Apparently, Word 2007 was designed to crash like that and Microsoft is proud of this particular feature.
According to ComputerPartner, the 'flaws' were spotted by an Israeli researcher Mati Aharoni of Offensive Security who was surprised when Vole didn't get back to him on them.
When Word 2007 runs out of ideas about what to do with a malformed Word document it crashes and thus saves it the trouble of having to think about it.
Anyway it was 'no big deal', she said, as users can restart the application to resume normal operations.
No big deal. If you have saved your work before it crashed, that is. Why use Office anyway? I haven't installed it for years and don't miss it at all.