Laura Rohde and Douglas F. Gray

Compaq Computer Corp. will transfer its entire 64-bit family of servers to Intel Corp.'s Itanium microprocessor architecture by 2004. Also as part of the agreement, Compaq will sell key intellectual property behind its Alpha processor business to Intel; the companies announced Monday in a joint telephone press conference in New York.

Because of a flaw in Microsoft Corp.'s Word word processor program, documents containing macros can be modified to bypass Word's security features and make possibly devastating changes to a user's computer, the company said Friday. A macro is a small script that can be used to automate tasks, such as text formatting on a document.