Outlook Assistance

Technology - Microsoft has made available Tuesday evening SP2 of Office 2007. Improvements to the program's most anticipated, native support for PDF, ODF, XPS and increased speed of execution for Outlook.

The release of Service Pack 2 of Office 2007 does not cause as much excitement as the Release Candidate of Windows 7, it does not mean least important. Microsoft is working on for over a year and has made significant fixes to security on the one hand, but for performance and compatibility.

First improvement in long, native support of the open source OpenDocument format in Excel Format (. Ods), PowerPoint (. ODP) and Word (. Odt). In the same spirit, the PDF and XPS are also borne of origin. The inclusion of plug-ins. A turning point for Microsoft is to open direct competitors, such as Acrobat and OpenOffice.org.

Outlook has also benefited from a series of improvements. According to Microsoft, SP2 would provide 26% extra speed at the start and closure and for common tasks.

Available by download or via Windows Update soon, SP2 weighs 304 MB