Microsoft has started looking into a problem that is preventing users from opening some Excel file attachments with non-ASCII ...

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that prevents some users from opening Excel email attachments in the new Outlook client.

As spotted by Bleeping Computer, Microsoft has published a new service alert related to Outlook. Labelled as issue EX1189359 and titled "Users may be unable to open Excel files attached to email ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ...