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The SP2 release is noteworthy as part of Microsoft's general commitment to enabling document-format interoperability, according to Tom Robertson, Microsoft's associate general counsel. He recommended that governments test the interoperability of Office ODF files with other applications that use that format. 'This is a victory for ODF, as it signifies a reversal of course by Microsoft from their decision to shun the format during the initial launch of Office 2007,' said Marino Marcich, the ODF Alliance's managing director, in a prepared statement. Microsoft has since joined OASIS to foster the ODF standard, but a statement from the ODF Alliance, which promotes ODF use, suggests that hard feelings still remain. The ISO standards battle over OOXML was a bitter affair, with industry rivals criticizing the process and incomplete documentation. The current Office 2007 product doesn't support that standard, instead supporting the earlier Ecma OOXML standard (Ecma-376). In November, OOXML became an international standard known as ISO/IEC 29500:2008. It came into sharp contrast with Microsoft's Open XML format, also known as Office Open XML (OOXML), when Microsoft began pressing to make OOXML into an international standard, too. ODF is an international standard maintained under OASIS.

ODF is used in various free Office-like productivity suites, such as IBM's Lotus Symphony and Sun Microsystems' applications. For instance, there appear to be a few line-spacing differences in the example he presented. Some of the formatting between Open XML and ODF doesn't track, as explained by Dough Mahugh, Microsoft's senior program manager on the Office interoperability team, in his blog. Moreover, the ODF file type can be specified as the default document format in Office 2007.

With SP2 installed, users can save Office 2007's Open XML-based files as ODF files. The most notable change with SP2 is built-in support in Office 2007 for the OpenDocument Format (ODF), XML Paper Specification (XPS) and Portable Document Format (PDF). The new service pack affects various applications in the Office suite, as well as Microsoft Office Server and Windows SharePoint Services.

The company plans to warn users 30 days before the service pack arrives. However, if you aren't in a hurry to get it, Microsoft plans to release SP2 as a 'critical update' via its Automatic Update service in 90 days. SP2 can be obtained right away by downloading it.

Microsoft office 2007 enterprise downloads