Coming soon with Service Pack 3 for Office 2003

Microsoft representative yesterday (April 26) said it plans to include some features and security enhancements in Office 2007 in Office 2003.

Mr. Joshua Edwards - Microsoft Office Product Technical Manager - said the focus of Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 is security. " We want to include in Office 2003 what we learned during the development of Office 2007. "

However, Microsoft has not published the exact date of Service Pack 3 release for Office 2003. And like many other Service Packs, SP 3 for Office 2003 is free.

Users will not see much change after installing SP 3 for Office 2003 because most of them are enhancements that strengthen the application system and files for Office 2003 to combat attacks, Edwards said. know.

Some upgrades that users can see visually like the ability to choose a data encryption mechanism. For example, in Office 2007 users can choose AES or Suite B standard encryption solution, so will Office 2003 SP 3.

The last Service Pack for 2003 released in September 2005 also focused on security, improved application stability and added support for Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005.

Office 2007 launched the user community earlier this year. Major changes in this new version of Office include user interface and file format standards. Up to now, there are not many security errors discovered in this version.

Hoang Dung