Microsoft ships major update for Mac Office 2008

From InfoWorld: Microsoft today updated Office 2008 for Mac to SP2 (Service Pack 2), adding a tool that beefs up access to documents stored on enterprise SharePoint servers and Microsoft's free Office Live Workspace service.

Office 2008 SP2 is the first major update to the suite since May 2008's SP1.

Microsoft touted several stability and performance improvements to the Mac suite, including faster launch and scrolling for Word, and 24 percent faster calculating in Excel. But it focused attention on the new Document Connection tool, which it first unveiled in January 2009 at the Macworld Conference & Expo. At the time, Microsoft was coy about a delivery date, saying only that it would ship the tool "later this year."

The tool is meant to make it easier for business users to share documents with colleagues running the Mac and Windows editions of Office, as it streamlines opening and saving documents to Office Live Workspace, the for-free online document access, storage and sharing service. At the same time, Office Live Workspace supports Safari 4.0, Apple's newest browser, as of today.

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