WinInformant meldt dat Microsoft hoogstwaarschijnlijk bezig is met de derde grote bugsschoonmaak voor Office 2000. Om het Service Pack te installeren zal de voorgaande SR1a benodigd zijn. Vreemd genoeg heeft Microsoft aangegeven de update niet duidelijk te gaan aankondigen op de Office Update pagina. Vanaf deze site zal het bestand echter wel te downloaden zijn wanneer het 14 oktober beschikbaar gesteld zal worden. Waarom zo'n huge bugfix niet rechtstreeks op Microsoft's frontpage gezet zal worden is mij een raadsel, iedereen is er toch mee gebaat lijkt me. Ook zullen de Office-versies die naar de winkels gaan niet geüpdate worden:
According to an unconfirmed report that I received last night, Microsoft is working on a third major bug fix release for its Office 2000 product, which it will curiously call "Service Pack 2" instead of "Service Release 2." Office 2000 SP2 follows Office 2000 SR1a with an October 14th release date, and the patch will require that SR1a is installed first.
And unlike the previous collections of bug fixes for Office 2000, SP2 will apparently be "patch-only," meaning that Microsoft will not reissue the full product with these fixes preinstalled, as it did with SR1a. The document I received noted that Office SP2 will contain all of the post-SR1a public patches and updates for Office 2000.
Microsoft is designing Office 2000 SP2 for corporate environments and will, as such, not advertise it heavily or even offer it directly from the Office Update Web site, according to a marketing FAQ viewed by WinInfo Daily Update. The SP2 release is really just a way to give corporations a simple way to roll out numerous bug fixes at a single time, so SP2 will come in an administrative version that can be rolled into an Office installation share. The other SP2 version, the so-called client version, will update individual users' Office 2000 SR1a installation.