Yesterday, Microsoft updated just about everything in its Office suites, the first change being an update of Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac to version 11.5.8. The new version, a 9.7 megabyte download, improves security and includes fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code.
Office 2008 for Mac received an update to version 12.2.4. The new version, a 221.5 megabyte download, offers 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.
The company’s Entourage 2008 Web Services Edition went up to version 13.0.4 yesterday. The new version, a 64.3 megabyte download, offers several calendaring improvements, this new version of Entourage synchronizes notes, tasks, and categories with Exchange Server. This update also enables logging that can be used for diagnostic purposes.
Finally, Microsoft’s Open XML Converter utility reached version 1.1.4. The new version, a 45 megabyte download, received unspecified changes.
As always, the new versions can be located, downloaded and installed with the Microsoft AutoUpdate utility.
If you’ve tried the new versions and noticed any major changes, please let us know.
One reply on “Microsoft Updates Office 2004, 2008, Open XML Converter”
The Open XML converter 1.1.4 doesn't appear to work in Mac OS X 10.6.3 (with Office 2004, fully patched)…. Looks like Microsoft broke this :-(.
Checking the convert log reveals the following…
Cheers,
D.
Class NLAssertionHandler is implemented in both /Applications/Open XML Converter.app/Contents/SharedSupport/wordcvtr and /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office Converter Support/Open XML for Word.framework/Versions/12/../../../MicrosoftComponentPlugin.framework/Versions/12/MicrosoftComponentPlugin. One of the two will be used. Which one is undefined.
Conversion failed