Be afraid, very afraid.

Particularly if your one of those still using file sharing.

Microsoft announced that the infamous PowerPoint program (Office 2003 and earlier) has been exposed to some serious security issues.  In fact, in an alert separate from that of Microsoft, the Denmark based vulnerability research shop Secunia labeled the issue “extremely critical.”

Users who click on malicious files, website links and email attachments trigger malware files on their workstations.  So far attempts to use this have been limited yet targeted.  Further it appears those with high access levels are at the highest risk.

These types of problems are easily avoidable thanks to browser-based programs!

There are numerous online-presentation tools all of which avoid such issues. Everything being embedded on a web page means there is no need to click external links, no need to open attached files, and no need to check with IT every time you wish to launch a presentation someone sends to you.

In the meantime Microsoft plans to “monitor the situation.”

-to learn go to GCN.com

Mashable put together a very comprehensive list of online presentation apps

Cool Site of The Day featured Empressr this past February

What I learned today, included us in a list of online presentation apps

Grad School Journal wrote a nice piece about Empressr

Medium Massage has a comprehensive list of all the finalist for the Webware 100 (please vote for Empressr) 

Edumorphology wrote a nice piece about us

RIApedia included Empressr its list of Flex applications (I like that they put us on top)

techlosofy has us in their list with some comments that are not in a language I can read

In the November issue of Inc Magazine and online, Empressr was included in a peer review of the strength of several online applications that go Beyond Powerpoint. Empresr was classified in the category of “Best for…Handling multimedia Web presentations” Check out the full article here, we are on the second page of the story.

The next feature release will give you the ability to upload your PowerPoint file to Empressr, we will extract out the slides as images and build a image based presentation. This will allow you to share work that you have previously created in PowerPoint with your friends and colleagues.Like the Quick Show feature once you create the PPT Show, you can open it in the Empressr Composr and add addition media like videos and animations, images, text and charts.