Office 2007 SP2 Built-In ODF and PDF Support

Microsoft's Office team has officially announced a Service Pack 2 for Office 2007, which adds some speed, reliability, and printing improvements across the board. The major new new thing? Native support for Open Document files (ODF), the major format of Open Office.org, without a plug-in, and printing to PDF. SP2 should arrive on April 28

What's new Microsoft Office 2007 SP2

• Support for Open Document Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF).
• Improved Outlook Calendaring reliability.
• Improved Outlook performance.
• Enabling Object Model support for Charts in Microsoft Ofice PowerPoint 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.
• Improved cryptographic functionality b supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system.
• Improved functionality in Microsoft Office Excel 2007 charting mechanism.
• Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint 2007).
• Ability for Visio 2007 to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard.
• Tool that enables the uninstallation of Office client Service Packs.