Microsoft Office 2007 gains support for more file formats including ODF

Microsoft has released its second service pack today for Office 2007. The service pack will provide a slew of minor updates that will improve functionality for the Office program. Most of the new features will allow for performance enhancements as well as support for more file formats.

You can download the service pack through the Microsoft website and the main appeal is the support for additional file formats, most importantly PDF files and ODF (open document format) files. Moreover, Microsoft has stated that there will be better stability for the Outlook application and charting functions within Excel.

Many of the updates are beneficial to IT pros with according to Jane Liles, group program manager, Office Sustained Engineering “several enhancements to the security and performance of SharePoint Server 2007, including support for read-only content databases, improvements to forms-based authentication, and an STSADM command-line utility that enables administrators to scan sites that use the variations feature for errors. SharePoint Server will also feature better support for newer versions of the Firefox browser.”

Besides finding the service pack through the Download Center, it will be incorporated into the Windows Update in several months.

Site: [Microsoft Download Center]