Download Slipstream Microsoft Office 2007 with Service Pack 2 (SP2)

Microsoft has released Office 2007 Service Pack 2 that includes major performance enhancements for Office applications, most notably Microsoft Office Outlook, as well as Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, improvements in calendar reliability and adds support for a broader range of file formats including PDF files. Office 2007 Service Pack 2 supports ODF file format. For example, you can now save the files as ODF & PDF formats, save and edit ODT, ODS and ODP files.

According to Jane Liles, group program manager, Office Sustained Engineering at Microsoft –

“Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent, with larger mailboxes. Users will experience considerable responsiveness and speed improvements on common, day-to-day operations like launching, synchronizing and searching.”

Main improvements that users will notice with SP2-

• After you install the Office 2007 Service Pack 2  you would notice –
• An improved performance and stability of Outlook,
• Better charting functionality in Excel.
• Provides faster file resaves in PowerPoint 2007
• More control over the appearance of SmartArt graphics.
• RSS improvements in Outlook
• Built-in support for Open XML, ODF and PDF

Main improvements that IT professionals will notice with SP2 on the server side -

• Several enhancements to the security and performance of SharePoint Server 2007 Support for read-only content databases,
• Improvements to forms-based authentication,
• STSADM command-line utility that enables administrators to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors.
• SharePoint Server will also feature better support for newer versions of the Firefox browser.

Here’s a complete list of changes and issues that have been fixed through Service Pack 2 (SP2) of Office 2007. You can download Office 2007 SP2 from Microsoft or order a slipstream copy of Office 2007 SP2 on a DVD here. Microsoft will release SP2 via Microsoft Update’s automatic update mechanism probably in August-2009. For more details visit Microsoft.

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