the Office Sustained Engineering Team has released some additional information on Office 2007 Service Pack 2. The expected availability for Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is between February – April 2009. some of the Service Pack 2 highlights:

  • file format support / interoperability
    • Open Document Format (ODF)
    • XML Paper Specification (XPS)
    • portable Document Format (PDF)
  • Office Desktop Programs
    • Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
    • Improved Outlook Performance
    • Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
    • Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
    • Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
    • Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
    • Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
    • Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs
  • For Office Servers:
    • Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
    • Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
    • Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Visit the Office Sustained Engineering Team Blog for more information.

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