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Microsoft Releases Two MS Office Updates

Microsoft Releases Two MS Office Updates

by , 5:55 PM EDT, August 12th, 2008

Microsoft released updates for both Office 2004 and Office 2008 for the Mac late on Tuesday.

The updates are available at the Mactopia downloads site. Version 11.5.1 is for Office 2004 and version 12.1.2 is for Office 2008.

The update for Office 2008 is 153 MB and can be found in the column labelled "Newest" at the link above. The update for Office 2004 is 15 MB.

Microsoft said that the updates include fixes for vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to overwrite the contents of memory with malicious code.

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Does the Office 2008 update provide fixes for native performance that is little better--and in some situations--actually worse than the performance of Office 2004 running in emulation?

Get a clue, Microsoft.

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Subject: Performance

Way faster loading on a 2.66 Quad Mac Pro.

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