I wonder when/if the OSX Microsoft Office will get ODF support.

It should be a big update indeed, I remember downloading SP2 in December of 2007 and it was like 200 MBs. Considering, the breath of applications that come with the Enterprise SKU, its not surprising.

Well, hopefully it fixes some bugs too. That would be nice. The other stuff doesn't look too exciting. I would rather have support for MediaWiki and some other Wiki formats.

Save as PDF eh?

The people at work will be kissing my feet when they see that. I mean yeah we use CutePDF but having a PDF feature built into save as will be huge.

Don't ask.... Doesn't excite me, but I'm a back office tech I don't manage documents and forms. They do.

Save as PDF is nice, but OpenOffice has had that for a long time now.

If you are interested in ODF - why not start using IBM Lotus Symphony -- and its FREE... so think about what you can do with the money you will save.

@Shilo Norman

There is already a download available from Microsoft that added that functionality to Office 2007... http://tinyurl.com/2v77sn

@Shilo Norman

There is already a download available from Microsoft that added that functionality to Office 2007... http://tinyurl.com/2v77sn

@Joe Wilcox

"What about Chrome, Firefox and Safari?"

They are the responsibility of their respective copyright holders and owners.

@Will

"I wonder when/if the OSX Microsoft Office will get ODF support."

When Steve Jobs says they may have it and not a minute sooner.

@Karl

Thanks for the link. :o)

For those interesting in saving some big bucks and getting rid of the M$ Office WGA and having Bill spy on you, there's this, the free very good alternatives:

www.openoffice.org/

www.abisource.com/

www.koffice.org/

and for those of you that want to try out linux, which usually includes on of the above office programs:

www.distrowatch.com/

Yup, you get what you pay for.

Andre Da Costa: Profile of a Microsoft Shill

boycottnovell.com/2009/02/01/andre-da-costa-schwag/

They could give Andre 1000 free Laptops and it wouldn't make Linux suck any less.

Any btw why all the Novell hate?

They bring a lot to the corporate Linux ecosystem.

eDirectory: Best directory system on the planet.

Identity management: Best of class Ldap synchronization system.

Novell: Excellent collaboration and messaging platform that runs on Linux and windows.

iFolder: World class remote synchronization.

Novell clustering services for high availability.

Zen for centralized management and deployment of Windows and Linux desktops. No one else in commercial Linux can even come close to that depth of quality in the corporate world. And all you holy rollers can do is bash them because of their ties to the great satan Microsoft.

I for one applaud Novell for the unifying force that it is and have high hopes for it's future success.

Need any more proof of andre da costa's free lapop:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/microsoft/archives/152854.asp

After you read the article, then read Andre's comment on the article. It would also seem that Andre must have been to PDC2008 in order to pick up that free (reviewers) laptop.

Excel bulletin stars in Microsoft patch batch
8 fixes, but no PowerPoint prob plug

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/15/ms_patch_tuesday_april/

Microsoft released eight patches, five critical, on Tuesday as part of its regular Patch Tuesday update cycle. Missing from the list is relief for a zero-day vulnerability in PowerPoint, actively targeted by hackers since last month...............

Be Careful Office Powerpoint users, its unsafe, and Stevie the EmBallmer, just doesn't care.

http://opdenacker.org/fun/microsoftjokes.html

Foot-and-mouth virus
Atlanta, Ga.

Scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Symantec's AntiVirus Research Center today confirmed that foot-and-mouth disease cannot be spread by Microsoft's Outlook email application, believed to be the first time the program has ever failed to propagate a major virus.

"Frankly, we've never heard of a virus that couldn't spread through Microsoft Outlook, so our findings were, to say the least, unexpected," said Clive Sarnow, director of the CDC's infectious disease unit.

The study was immediately hailed by British officials, who said it will save millions of pounds and thousands of man hours. "Up until now we have, quite naturally, assumed that both foot-and-mouth and mad cow were spread by Microsoft Outlook," said Nick Brown, Britain's Agriculture Minister. "By eliminating it, we can focus our resources elsewhere."

However, researchers in the Netherlands, where foot-and-mouth has recently appeared, said they are not yet prepared to disqualify Outlook, which has been the progenitor of viruses such as "I Love You," "Bubbleboy," "Anna Kournikova," and "Naked Wife," to name but a few.

Said Nils Overmars, director of the Molecular Virology Lab at Leiden University: "It's not that we don't trust the research, it's just that as scientists, we are trained to be skeptical of any finding that flies in the face of established truth. And this one flies in the face like a blind drunk sparrow."

Executives at Microsoft, meanwhile, were equally skeptical, insisting that Outlook's patented Virus Transfer Protocol (VTP) has proven virtually pervious to any virus. The company, however, will issue a free VTP patch if it turns out the application is not vulnerable to foot-and-mouth.

Such an admission would be embarrassing for the software giant, but Symantec virologist Ariel Kologne insisted that no one is more humiliated by the study than she is. "Only last week, I had a reporter ask if the foot-and-mouth virus spreads through Microsoft Outlook, and I told him, 'Doesn't everything?'" she recalled. "Who would've thought?"

I was hoping that this would have been out in the April 14th Patch Tuesday. I'd read about the improvements to outlook and those were the primary things I was interested in.

The save as PDF has been available for office 2007 since it was released, but because of licensing issues with adobe had to be a download instead of distributed on the disk. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4d951911-3e7e-4ae6-b059-a2e79ed87041&displaylang=en Changing it to be part of the service pack will be nice, but not a huge improvement. I wonder if my "installed programs" will get cleaned up when I install the service pack.

Save as PDF has been available since Office 2007's RTM (it was a separate download).

Does SP2 re-instate the exporting of Reports in Access to Excel. (Hopefully)

already available through download.com !! but not in microsfot website?!!

http://download.cnet.com/2007-Microsoft-Office-Suite-Service-Pack-2-SP2/3000-18483_4-10914017.html?tag=mncol;txt

ok found it!!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=b444bf18-79ea-46c6-8a81-9db49b4ab6e5&displaylang=en