Yesterday, Microsoft released the second Service Pack (SP2) for Office 2008 for Mac. This update makes some stability and speed improvements to this version of Office, as well as adds some new document collaboration features.
The developers of Office 2008 for Mac SP2 listened to customer feedback to improve on this very popular software suite for the Mac. With this update, program such as Word and Powerpoint will launch faster. Excel also features speed improvements, most notably with faster calculations. Users can also customize their default Themes to include their preferred fonts, color schemes, layouts, etc.
The biggest improvement brought by SP2 is in the area of document collaboration and file-sharing. Office 2008 for Mac now supports seamless integration with Microsoft Office Live Workspace. This free file-sharing network now supports Safari 4 and Firefox, which will make it easier for users on all platforms to access their documents. Microsoft SharePoint, the enterprise level document sharing server, now has a better user experience for collaboration with Mac documents.
To download Office 2008 for Mac SP2 for free, check out this direct link from Microsoft. For a free trial of Office 2008 for Mac, check out this previous blog post.
