App Suite to retire mainstream support at six months
Microsoft Tuesday its latest service pack for Office 2007.
Service Pack 3 (SP3), which weighs in 351MB, was sent to the Microsoft Download Center yesterday, and have begun to appear as an optional install from Windows Update.
Microsoft will not start automatically download and install Office 2007 SP3 on customers' PCs for 90 days.
Office 2007 SP3 is the first service pack is SP2 since 2009, and the upcoming end of mainstream support, almost certainly his last.
This service pack debut was not a surprise earlier this month, Microsoft promised to send the update this month.
Microsoft was under a self-imposed deadline to get SP3 in October because it wanted to give business customers six months to test and implement before the suite is a retired mainstream support on 10 April 2012.
When Office 2007 will leave mainstream support, Microsoft provides most customers security updates only during a five year sentence extended support runs through April 11, 2017.
Users can continue to run Office 2007 SP2 - which version do not retire - but all the security updates Microsoft will stop SP2 a year from now.
Links to download pages for the various permutations of Office 2007 SP3 can be found in this Microsoft blog post.
Office 2007 went on general sale in January 2007 with Windows Vista, but was ousted by Office 2010 more than a year ago.
Microsoft Tuesday its latest service pack for Office 2007.
Service Pack 3 (SP3), which weighs in 351MB, was sent to the Microsoft Download Center yesterday, and have begun to appear as an optional install from Windows Update.
Microsoft will not start automatically download and install Office 2007 SP3 on customers' PCs for 90 days.
Office 2007 SP3 is the first service pack is SP2 since 2009, and the upcoming end of mainstream support, almost certainly his last.
This service pack debut was not a surprise earlier this month, Microsoft promised to send the update this month.
Microsoft was under a self-imposed deadline to get SP3 in October because it wanted to give business customers six months to test and implement before the suite is a retired mainstream support on 10 April 2012.
When Office 2007 will leave mainstream support, Microsoft provides most customers security updates only during a five year sentence extended support runs through April 11, 2017.
Users can continue to run Office 2007 SP2 - which version do not retire - but all the security updates Microsoft will stop SP2 a year from now.
Links to download pages for the various permutations of Office 2007 SP3 can be found in this Microsoft blog post.
Office 2007 went on general sale in January 2007 with Windows Vista, but was ousted by Office 2010 more than a year ago.
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