Microsoft is the biggest software company in the world and it makes the lion's share of its profits from its Windows operating systems and from its Office productivity suite.
Microsoft has announced that Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 will be released this month. The update will be offered to users via the Windows update tool and Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) for corporate users.
The first mention of SP2 for Office 2007 was made back in October 2008 reports WindowsITPro and will add some notable improvements to the popular productivity suite. Among the improvements will be support for the open-source Open Document Format (ODF) and native save to PDF functionality. The ODF format was reportedly added to meet the needs of governments and other agencies that use Office.
The WSUS team posted a blog with a little information on Office 2007 SP2:
Service Pack 2 for the 2007 Office System will be made available in April. Service Pack 2 includes some significant work, including: built-in ability to save as ODF and PDF formats, improvements to Outlook's performance and calendar reliability, significant bug fixes for charts in core Office applications, the ability for client service packs to be removed using an uninstall tool, and a host of customer-requested improvements to the Office Server products. It is also a rollup of all fixes that have previously been released for Office 2007 products.
Microsoft plans to launch its next generation operating system, Windows 7, this year and the next generation of Office will be launched in 2010. The next version of Office is tentatively called "Office 14".