Microsoft heeft een nieuwe update klaarstaan voor zijn Office 2008-pakket voor het Mac OS X-platform. Het pakket bevat Word, Excel, Powerpoint en Entourage, evenals een groot aantal wizards en tools om het verwerken van teksten, afbeeldingen en geluiden gemakkelijker te maken. De versieteller staat inmiddels op 12.1.2 en is voorzien van de volgende aankondiging:
Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.1.2 Update
This update contains several improvements to enhance stability and performance. In addition, this update includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.
Microsoft has released security bulletin MS08-043. This security bulletin contains all the relevant information about the security updates for Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac.
Improvements for all Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac applications:Improvements for Microsoft Word 2008 for Mac
- Security is improved.
- AppleScript reliability is improved.
Improvements for Microsoft Excel 2008 for Mac:
- Word opens more quickly.
- Display of text in tables is improved.
- Reliability is improved when you use headers and footers.
- Typed text does not appear in the footers. This issue occurs when you insert a section break in the document.
- The Close button does not appear in Header and Footer view.
- Display of form fields is improved.
Improvements for Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac
- Files that have invalid characters in the sheet name open correctly.
- Reliability is improved for formulas when the international format preference is set to New Zealand.
- Number formatting for some international languages is improved.
- Reliability is improved.
- Calculation performance is improved.
- Stability is improved when you save workbooks that contain PivotTable reports.
- Stability is improved when you use Microsoft Sync Services.
- Events and other items in Entourage or in iCal are duplicated.
- All contacts in Entourage or in the Apple Address Book are deleted and re-created when you use Microsoft Sync Services.
- Reliability is improved for recurring calendar events.
- Reliability is improved.
- Embedded graphics or images are not displayed correctly in messages when you read or view the messages.
- HTML e-mail messages appear as blank messages.
- In Entourage 2008 SP1, some characters that follow the ampersand (&) in a hyperlink are truncated.
- The Japanese postal code dictionary is updated.
- Time zone information is updated.
- Reliability is improved when Entourage establishes a encrypted channel.
- The junk mail filter is updated.