A short article pointing to an updated
Microsoft tool to strip out "hidden" personal data in Office
documents, such as comments, revisions, etc. There's a reason I typically
only distribute PDFs of presentations I do these days -- it's easier than
remembering to try to clean up speaker notes or any of this other junk.
My favorite culprit is speaker notes.
I'll never forget the glee when I received a Microsoft presentation
describing the then-forthcoming Exchange 2000 release. It had a slide
covering the new front-end/back-end server configuration. The slide
talked about the scalability improvements coming as a result of the new
deployment option. In the speaker notes, it said (paraphrased, it's
been five years) -- "Note: We do not want to disclose that
MAPI is not supported by the front-end server configuration."
If we had had blogs then, you all would have known about it right
away. Instead, all I could do was put that slide into my early days
competitive presentations.
I also remember that there was a whole
series of MS "Competitive Bulletins" issued in 1999, 2000, 2001.
Inevitably, when they would make their way to my inbox, the first
thing I would check was the document properties, to see if they had been
authored by Tony Walsh. That led to an interesting encounter at DevCon
2000, where I was working a pedestal when Mr. Walsh approached. He
started asking me about whatever I was showing (probably the first go at
iNotes Access for MS-Outlook), and I said something like "it actually
does work, despite what you wrote in that paper." Tony replied,
"huh? Do I know you?" I guess that was the first
time we had a little spy vs. spy thing going on... miss you, Tony-- hope
retirement is working out well!
Link: What
are you exposing in your Word, Excel, PowerPoint files?
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