April 14th, 2009
Office 2007 SP2 coming April 28
Microsoft is confirming that Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will be released in April, as many company watchers had been expecting — specifically, on April 28.
A list of some of the changes that will be part of the client and server updates delivered via SP2 were posted to the Microsoft Update Product Team Blog on April 14.
As Microsoft officials noted last fall, Office 2007 SP2 will include changes to both the desktop and server components of Office 2007.
On the desktop, Microsoft plans to deliver via SP2 previously announced file-format changes — specifically support for Open Document Format (ODF), Microsoft’s own XML Paper Specfication (XPS) and PDF. SP2 also will add improvements to Outlook calendaring reliability and improved Outlook performance overall; improvements to Excel’s charting mechanism; the ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard; and an uninstall tool for Office client service packs.
The Server version of SP2 is expected to add improvements to enterprise content-management; improvements to the processing status approvals in Project; and improvements to read-only content databases and index.
Now all we need is the download delivery date for Vista SP2 (which also is expected in April)….
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