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A historical account of a sporadic bug in Word 97 caused by a CPU erratum, resolved through binary patching to minimize risks during the release cycle.
Håkon Måløy discovered a prompt injection variant that turns into a self-replicating worm in Microsoft Word's Copilot, propagating hidden instructions across documents. Microsoft had 144 days to fix but no full mitigation.
This article demonstrates a novel AI worm that can self-propagate through Microsoft's Copilot for Word by embedding hidden instructions in documents, causing Copilot to copy those instructions into new documents. The vulnerability was disclosed to Microsoft's Security Response Center.
SquarePact introduces a Word add-in that lets AI agents edit documents natively in Microsoft Word while preserving formatting, with a new feature to connect custom OpenClaw agents. The tool addresses the common problem of formatting loss when pasting AI-generated text into Word documents.
A tribute to Tony Krueger, the Microsoft developer who pioneered the red and green squiggly underlines for spell and grammar checking in Word, a feature now ubiquitous in word processors.
A user demonstrates running Microsoft Word inside a Modal sandbox on the day of Modal's Series C funding announcement.