Companies always consider usability and productivity gains like the ones mentioned previously when deciding whether or not to upgrade or purchase new software. For IT administrators, security improvements are often even more compelling reasons to approve software upgrades, and in this case, Office 2010 may get the nod of approval. Among the enhancements to security for Office users:
- Protected View: opens documents downloaded from the Web with editing and macro execution disabled (until you approve the document in the Security Message Bar), protecting you from malware and other threats
- Office File Validation: only allows files with the proper format structure to open
- Other administrative and technical controls: DEP (data execution prevention) support to protect Office applications from malicious code exploits, administrative settings for more control over file types an application can access, improved encryption features and more.
