You've probably noticed the increasing number of zero-day attacks [1] targeting Microsoft Word [2] recently. You've also probably noticed that Microsoft isn't patching these flaws in a timely manner and is instead recommending ridiculous workarounds, asking users to "exercise extreme caution when opening unsolicited attachments from both known and unknown sources." If that's the case, what's the point of using Microsoft Office at all? That's the question that ZDnet's George Ou asks in his latest blog post, titled "Is MS Office becoming a zero-day liability all year long?"

For a thorough analysis from a notoriously tough critic:
- check out this blog post [3]