The last time Office was updated with a service pack was July 2004, putting SPs for the suite on the 12- to 18-month track that Microsoft generally adheres to. The Windows site run by Steven Bink of Amsterdam shows several screen shots of the new Outlook feature, including one which appears when the user enables deleted links within a suspicious message. The links can be turned on manually by the user (much as embedded images within messages can be toggled on within Outlook). One of the most notable, if hidden, is a new anti-phishing feature in Microsoft Outlook 2003.Ī new setting in Outlook's Junk Email Filter now renders all messages filed to the Junk folder as plain text (rather than the more dangerous HTML) and by default disables the links embedded in all Junk messages. SP2 boasts relatively few straight-out additions, however. "SP2 provides updates that address top customer experience issues, as well as support for upgraded applications, security improvements, and significant stability and performance improvements for Office client applications as well as servers," said a Microsoft spokesperson in an e-mail to TechWeb.Īll the applications in the various versions of Office 2003 - including Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, and Outlook - as well as other programs in the Office family, such as OneNote, Publisher, and FrontPage, are affected by the SP2 update, said Microsoft in the online document detailing the fixes.
According to Microsoft, it also includes stability improvements garnered from user-reported crashes via the Microsoft Online Crash Analysis tool, which pops up a display whenever a program fails in Windows XP and asks if the user wants to report the problem to Microsoft.
Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is primarily a collection of previously-released security fixes, with some new additions thrown in for good measure.
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