MS Office 2007 SP3
For those of you that have Office 2007, Microsoft will be releasing Service Pack (SP) 3 for it soon. Here’s a Microsoft blog post with the download links. SP3 is available via the Download Center as of this week, and will be pushed out as an Automatic Update in 90 days Microsoft execs said.
The last cumulative update for Office 2003, Service Pack 3 resolves several compatibility and stability issues with Windows Vista and later operating systems. Mainstream support for Office 2003 application ended in April 2009 and extended support ends in April 2014.
I have written about Office XP here: http://jet-computing.com/microsoft-office-xp-support-retired/ It’s highly doubtful you use Office XP at home, but there may be some poor souls at there still using that decade-old version of Office.
If your in the market for new document software give LibreOffice a try, it is what I use here in the office. On a side note and with great news, The Document Foundation creators of the LibreOffice office suite of applications, have announced that they are currently working on projects to bring LibreOffice to Android and iOS devices, together with accessibility through web browsers.
The Libreoffice port project is based on the work of Tor Lillqvist and will now be focusing on bringing its suite of applications to mobile devices in the near future. LibreOffice currently competes and offers a great free alternative to Microsoft Offices suite of applications. LibreOffice was created by former OpenOffice.org developers after concerns about Oracle’s community-hostile stewardship of OpenOffice.org and a number of long-standing procedural and governance issues that existed long before Oracle’s acquisition of Sun.
LibreOffice has been developed by The Document Foundation as a fork of OpenOffice.org, and is compatible with other major office suites, including Microsoft Office making it easy to swap too. When created it developers goal with LibreOffice was to create a vendor-independent office suite with ODF support but without any copyright assignment requirements. Since its launch the LibreOffice software has been downloaded over 7.5 million times since its launch back in January 2011.
