Microsoft Office 2008 Service Pack 2 for the Mac is available as of 10am today. Microsoft lists that the update first and foremost provides more “speed, stability and compatibility.” There are also new features in applications. For example, PowerPoint has new animation features and you can create new default themes.
But one of the larger overall features is the addition of Document Connection, which allows users to access and browse documents located on SharePoint servers and in the Microsoft Office Live Workspace. Microsoft is clearly not forgetting about the Mac in their new Software+Services model. They even announced official browser support for Safari 4 as a part of this overall strategy.
And the software is faster. In our tests, each of the office applications opened at least one to two seconds faster than before installing SP2.
Download and start testing it out today at http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads.mspx or click here to download the dmg file directly.
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