SP3 Coming for Microsoft Office 2003

By Michael Santo
Executive Editor, RealTechNews

Microsoft will be backporting security work it did for Office 2007 and applying those security fixes to Office 2003, in a Service Pack (3). There’s also a chance that other code will make it into the SP, but there’s no information on that or on the date of release.

Service Pack 3 for Office 2003 will be focused on security, said Joshua Edwards, a technical product manager for Office at Microsoft. “We’re trying to take what we learned from building Office 2007 and bring as much as we can to Office 2003,” Edwards said in an interview with CNET News.com.

Microsoft hasn’t yet set a release date for the Office 2003 update, which like other service packs will be available as a free upgrade. Also, there are no details of what will be in the update, other than that Microsoft is “backporting” work it did for Office 2007. Source: News.com

We Say: Now, if we could just get an SP3 for Windows XP.