MS Office without security updates

coyote2

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I have an excellent antivirus and firewall; will I have security risks if I keep using MS Office 2003 after it is "end of life" (and security updates cease) April 2014?

I can't afford to upgrade unless I have to.
 

lewza

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Obviously as time goes by your putting yourself at more risk to being vulnerable.

I cant imagine for the first 6 months - 1 year that it will be much of a big issue.

Just make sure you are fully patched up to the point where they stop releasing updates.