Microsoft has given its usual 30 days advance notice before the release of a Microsoft Office service pack via Automatic Updates. The service pack will be coming through Microsoft Update for Windows XP and Windows Vista.Read More...
Don't want to wait for Office 2007 SP2, slated to arrive in early 2009, for ODF support? That's OK. Sun has just released version 1.2 of its ODF Plug-in, available for Office 2000, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2007 SP1+.Read More...
Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 will officially add support for the Open Document Format ODF which is a free and open file format for electronic office documents. The format is already implemented in Open Office and users of Microsoft Office 2007 who want their product to be compatible can download the ODF plugin for Microsoft Office at Sun.
Microsoft announced a major update to Office 2008 for Mac, calling it SP1. Oh, and by the way, VBA support is coming back to Office for Mac. Ars spent some time chatting with the Mac BU about the decision and what it means for Mac Office users. Read More...
Microsoft has decided to break up Microsoft Office hotfixes into two types: Cumulative Updates (CUs) released every two months and Critical On-demand (COD) hotfixes released asap in emergency situations. The first CU will be released in August 2008.Read More...
The Microsoft Small Business Center is offering six free design families for Microsoft Office 2007 that can be downloaded directly from the promotional website. A design family is simply a collection of several templates for different Office 2007 applications that have all the same look and feel to them.
Go-OO (found at Neowin), which probably stands for Go Open Office, is a fork of the original Open Office software that adds a multitude of features and optimizations to Open Office. The developers created a page on their website that details the improvements that Go-OO offers over the original Open Office client.
On April 15, 2008, Microsoft released an Office Genuine Advantage update that caused headaches for many system administrators. Microsoft has admitted it made a mistake and has released a patch for the problems caused.Read More...
