Earlier this month, DailyTech reported that Microsoft had plans to release Service Pack 2 for Office 2007 sometime this month. Just as promised, Microsoft today delivered Service Pack 2 for Microsoft Office 2007 to the masses.

Service Pack 2 brings a number of bugfixes while at the same time boosting reliability and performance of core applications. Service Pack 2 also includes the ability to natively save documents in PDF and ODF file formats.

Jane Liles, Microsoft’s group program manager for Office Sustained Engineering, had this to say regarding the specific improvements to the Outlook mail application, “Outlook is where a large percentage of our users spend the majority of their work time. It’s critical that the application provide the experience that they expect and need to get their work done.”

“Outlook 2007 SP2 is 26 percent faster than its predecessor on a set of common e-mail tasks and is even faster, 35 percent, with larger mailboxes,” Liles continued. “Users will experience considerable responsiveness and speed improvements on common, day-to-day operations like launching, synchronizing and searching. We were excited to be able to act on as much of the customer feedback as we did.”

Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2 is available as a direct download from Microsoft’s website – it weighs in a hefty 290 MB.