The Redmond firm explained that the reactivation of macros in Office was only temporary and that it would put this security measure back in place.
A few days ago, users of the Office office suite surprisingly discovered that Microsoft no longer blocked macros downloaded online in documents by default. The automatic blocking of macros in Office had been set up by the Redmond firm at the beginning of the year in order to limit security risks. This impromptu backtracking at the beginning of the week had therefore aroused the concern of certain users, but also and above all of system administrators who considered the blocking of macros to be an excellent decision.
To justify its measure, Microsoft had simply indicated that it was based on negative comments received from certain users of the Office office suite.
Faced with the many concerns raised in particular in the comments of its forum, Microsoft published an update in a blog post on this subject.
“Based on user feedback, we’ve temporarily rolled back this change while we make additional changes to improve usability. This is a temporary change, and we are fully committed to making the change default for all users,” said Kellie Eickmeyer, product manager at Microsoft.
Microsoft has not disclosed details of the changes it plans to roll out to its Office office suite. The Redmond firm is actually looking for a solution to modify the process allowing users to reactivate macros in a document when they are blocked. Originally, the American company planned to force users to go to the properties of the document concerned to specifically disable macro blocking. For the moment, when macros are blocked, a simple banner incorporating a button on which the user only has to click to unblock the use of macros downloaded from the Web is displayed at the top of the document.
Source :
The Verge