Microsoft dismisses OpenOffice password removal
Microsoft has played down a feature in open source rival OpenOffice.org that removes password protection on Excel cells and worksheets.
Opening and saving an Excel file in OpenOffice.org removes password protection applied to cells and worksheets by authors so they can be unhidden and edited.
Darren Strange, Office product manager at Microsoft, said that the open source community had "not respected [Microsoft's] security" and that this capability could present "a bit of a problem" to Excel authors.
John McCreesh, marketing project co-lead for OpenOffice.org, said that the removal of protection passwords from Excel files was a feature of the application, not a bug. He also pointed out that a warning appears alerting the user to this when the file is saved.
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