Service Pack 2 per Office 2007 in arrivo questo mese

In attesa del lancio ufficiale del nuovo Service Pack 2 per Windows Vista e Windows Server 2008, Microsoft ha comunicato nella giornata di oggi di essere pronta a rilasciare entro questo mese il nuove SP2 per Office 2007. L'aggiornamento include tutte le novità già viste nell'SP1 e nuovi importanti miglioramenti che possiamo riassumere nel seguente schema:

- Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
- Improved Outlook Performance
- Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word

- Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
- Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
- Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
- Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
- Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs
- Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
- Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
- Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

L'aggiornamento sarà disponibile per il download attraverso Windows Update.