Office Service Pack team announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system

Office Service Pack team announce that Service Pack 2 (SP2) for the 2007 Microsoft Office system is expected to be released in the near future.  the exact release date, it will around February to April of 2009

The list given below,

For Office Desktop Programs:

• · Improved Outlook Calendaring Reliability
• · Improved Outlook Performance
• · Enabling Object Model support for Charts in PowerPoint and Word
• · Improved cryptographic functionality by supporting all cryptographic algorithms offered by the operating system
• · Improved functionality in Excel’s charting mechanism
• · Ability to ungroup SmartArt graphics (and as a result, the ability to add animations to them in PowerPoint)
• · Ability for Visio to export UML models to an XML file compliant with the XMI standard
• · Tool that enables the uninstall of Office client Service Packs

For Servers:

• · Performance and manageability improvements to variations in Enterprise Content Management (ECM) including STSADM commands for repairing links between source and target pages
• · Improvements around processing status approvals from Office Project Web Access into Office Project Professional 2007
• · Improvements to read-only content databases and index rebuild timer jobs in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0

Personally I disappoint that SP2 dose not include Wiki (Comments, Star Rating), Blog (Tag, Start Rating) and WebParts for Shared Calendar enhancements