Office Standard 2010 Office 2007 SP2 due in early

Services Pack 2 (SP2) for Office 2007 will ship some time between February and April 2009.That;s not a guess (educated or in any other case); that;s the phrase straight in the Office staff,Discount Office 2007, through the Workplace Sustained Engineering blog.According to an October 22 posting towards the weblog,Office Standard 2010, Microsoft is gearing as much as invite a group of pick testers towards the beta for each the customer and server versions of Workplace 2007 SP2.Amongst the new features coming inside the desktop SP are previously announced file-format adjustments — specifically support for Open Document Format (ODF),Office 2007 Activation, Microsoft;s own XML Paper Specfication (XPS) and PDF. SP2 also will add improvements to Outlook calendaring reliability and improved Outlook performance overall; improvements to Excel;s charting mechanism; the ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard; and an uninstall tool for Workplace customer company packs.The Server version of SP2 adds improvements to enterprise content-management; improvements towards the processing status approvals in Project; and improvements to read-only content databases and index,Microsoft Office 2010 Product Key, the weblog posting added.Microsoft released SP1 for Workplace 2007 in December 2007,Office 2010 Home And Stude/nt, a number of months earlier than many had been ledby Microsoft to expect.I found this part of today;s posting on SP2 to be quite interesting:“Historically, we [the Workplace team] have waited to communicate details about services packs until their release (or very shortly before). As we communicated with SP3 for Office 2003 and SP1 for the 2007 Office System, we will be taking steps to increase transparency and visibility into the Office servicing model at the request of our customers. To that end, we would like to start sharing some details into what will be included in SP2 for the 2007 Workplace system. This is by no means an exhaustive list of everything included in this support pack and we will share more details prior towards the final release, but we want to start communicating to customers what they should be aware of at a high level.”I wonder if the Workplace unit;s willingness to start talking publicly about SP2 will end up influencing the Windows staff at all. The Windows crew is believed to be ready to start testing SP2 for Vista and SP2 for Windows Server 2008 within the next few weeks, even though the staff refuses to comment on its schedule or the expected characteristics. All customers — not just a small, choose few beta testers — want and need to know what kinds of characteristics and fixes are on the Microsoft product roadmaps.(Thanks to WinBeta for the pointer to Microsoft;s Office 2007 SP2 posting.)