Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus Office 2007 SP2 due

Company Pack two (SP2) for Office 2007 will ship a while between February and April 2009.That;s not a guess (educated or otherwise); that;s the phrase straight in the Office staff,Microsoft Office 2010 Pro Plus, by way of the Office Sustained Engineering weblog.According to an October 22 posting towards the blog,Office Pro 2010, Microsoft is gearing as much as invite a group of pick testers towards the beta for both the customer and server variations of Office 2007 SP2.Amongst the new attributes coming in the desktop SP are previously introduced file-format changes — specifically support for Open Document Format (ODF), 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 client support 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,Office Home And Stude/nt, the weblog posting added.Microsoft released SP1 for Workplace 2007 in December 2007, 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,Microsoft Office Professional Plus, we [the Office 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 Workplace System, we will be taking steps to increase transparency and visibility into the Workplace 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 services pack and we will share more details prior to 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 group is believed to be ready to start testing SP2 for Vista and SP2 for Windows Server 2008 inside the next few weeks,microsoft Office 2010 Serial, even though the staff refuses to comment on its schedule or the expected features. 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.)