Microsoft releases the second service pack for Office 2007

Earlier this month, DailyTech reported that Microsoft had plans to release Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 sometime this month. Just as promised, Microsoft today delivered Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 to the masses.

Service Pack 2 brings a number of bugfixes while at the same time boosting reliability and performance of core applications. Service Pack 2 also includes the ability to natively save documents in PDF and ODF file formats.

Jane Liles, Microsoft’s group program manager for Office Sustained Engineering, had this to say regarding the specific improvements to the Outlook mail application, “Outlook is where a large percentage of our users spend the majority of their work time. It’s critical that the application provide the experience that they expect and need to get their work done.”

“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,” Liles continued. “Users will experience considerable responsiveness and speed improvements on common, day-to-day operations like launching, synchronizing and searching. We were excited to be able to act on as much of the customer feedback as we did.”

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is available as a direct download from Microsoft’s website – it weighs in a hefty 290 MB.

This update fixes an error that may occur when installing the Microsoft Office suite Service Packs.

This is advance notice that we will start providing SP2 for the 2007 Microsoft Office system via Microsoft Update’s Automatic Update the week of September 21, 2009.

This continues our commitment to providing a minimum of 30 days notice prior to distributing service packs via this method.

The availability will happen gradually over time, completing in early February. This is in response to customer requests as well as to ensure that our service infrastructure can meet the demand for the service pack.

http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_...er-21-2009.aspx

got MS OFFICE 2010???

so..once i downloaded this one, does it automatically removes the 2003 version of microsoft office that i am having now? and btw, is this free or isit a trial for a limited period?