An MS TechNet blog has announced that Service Pack 2 for Office 2o07 will be released on a date between February and April 2009.
Some details of changes in Office desktop applications in SP2 have been included in the announcement:
- 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 un-group SmartArt graphics and add animations in PowerPoint
- Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
- Tool that enables the un-install of Office client Service Packs
