Office 2007 Service Pack 2 released

wkwalker — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:35:03 +0000

Office 2007 Service Pack 2 was released yesterday. It’s a big download — 290MB if you grab the whole thing — but worth it. For most folks, the biggest reason to get it is that a number of Office applications load and run noticeably faster. SP2 also rolls up a great many security and bug fixes and incorporates support for Open Document Format (ODF). ODF is an important, non-Microsoft document standard and the default format used by third-party packages such as Open Office. This is no more than a convenience for most small operations, but is a big deal for organizations with significant cross-platform or international exposure.

How to get it…

If you have automatic updates enabled and set up to download more than just core Windows updates, you should be offered Office 2007 SP2 automatically.
You can download it directly from Microsoft.
Or, you can get SP2 from a third party such as BetaNews fileforum.

So far, the SP2 update seems to be pretty well behaved. It reset my default news reader setting, but that was a minor irritation, easily corrected. If I encounter any significant issues, I’ll post them here.

Oh, one more thing: If you are running Windows XP, you must have Service Pack 3 installed before you can install Office 2007 SP2. For Vista, Service Pack 1 is required.

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Office 2007 Service Pack 2 released