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Microsoft updates MS Office 2003 with Service Pack 2

With the competition getting stiffer with Sun Microsystems launching StarOffice 8 and the state of Massachusetts adopting OpenDocument standards for their official work documentation, Microsoft has launched the second service pack for their existing office suite in the market MS Office 2003. The company is currently working on their supposed to be revolutionary MS Office 2006, which is expected to bring new generation User Interface to make working easy in the various applications.

The update came late Tuesday and beef up security, fix stability problems, and add an anti-phishing filter to the Outlook e-mail client. It also comes with all the previously released patches and updates for the Office Suite. As per the company’s statement: it also includes stability improvements garnered from user-reported crashes via the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis tool, which pops up a display whenever a program fails in Windows XP and asks if the user wants to report the problem to Microsoft.

The company said this to a media group: “SP2 provides updates that address top customer experience issues, as well as support for upgraded applications, security improvements, and significant stability and performance improvements for Office client applications as well as servers.” The company also informed that all the applications of the suite are updated with this service pack, which includes: OneNote, Publisher, and FrontPage other than Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook.

Download: MS Office 2003 Service Pack 2