Microsoft Issues Updates for Office 2011, 2008, and 2004

[MacRumors]

Microsoft yesterday released several updates for users of its Office for Mac productivity suites, bringing security and stability improvements to Office 2011, 2008, and 2004, as well as a pair of ancillary updates.

- Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.1.2 Update (108.9 MB): Improvements include security fixes and several stability and reliability improvements for Outlook and Word.

- Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.3.0 Update (333.0 MB) and Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.6.4 Update (13.0 MB): Improvements appear to be limited to security fixes.

Additional details on the security fixes, which address as many as eight vulnerabilities in Excel depending on Office version, are available in a Microsoft security bulletin.

- Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.0 (45.0 MB) and Microsoft Entourage 2008 for Mac, Web Services Edition (64.0 MB): These updates appear to primarily provide compatibility with the updated Office for Mac versions.

Article Link: Microsoft Issues Updates for Office 2011, 2008, and 2004

 

[Yamcha]

Good to know..

 

[RedTomato]

Nice to see an update for Office 2004.

I'd love to see an Intel installer for Office 2008 released for Lion. Can't be that much code given the rest of the entire package is Intel, and that OSX installers are simpler than Windows installers.

 

[Peteman100]

Its a big one too. It popped up for me yesterday.

 

[roadbloc]

Good to see Microsoft still supporting older software. I wish Apple would do similar at times.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

This'll be the first update for my G4 Mini running 10.3.9 in years. Leave it to MS to keep things nice n' tidy though!

edit: Wow, this is even adding new features. Looks like my mini can remain relevant if I ever need it as more than a jukebox.

 

[ResPublica]

This'll be the first update for my G4 Mini running 10.3.9 in years. Leave it to MS to keep things nice n' tidy though!

edit: Wow, this is even adding new features. Looks like my mini can remain relevant if I ever need it as more than a jukebox.

Why don't you update it to at least Tiger? Tiger is better than Panther in every conceivable way...

 

[b0blndsy]

I wonder why Microsoft office for Mac is still so popular when alternatives like open office are available.

 

[dizmonk]

of course after I update the damn thing Outlook starts acting funny... I suspect a second update will be coming shortly...

 

[dakwar]

I wonder why Microsoft office for Mac is still so popular when alternatives like open office are available.

I ask the same question of myself every time I start a new document in Office for Mac, 2011 no less. For me personally, its because I don't know what features Word/Excel/Powerpoint has that rival apps are missing - i import a lot of vector graphics from Ai, PNG files, and let Endnote handle referencing. Within the next 12 months though, I expect to give Pages/Numbers/Keynote a serious try.

 

[hfletcher]

I'd love to see an Intel installer for Office 2008 released for Lion. Can't be that much code given the rest of the entire package is Intel, and that OSX installers are simpler than Windows installers.

Ah.. Software which is only 3 years old will not install on Lion. Pretty poor, really, considering that all they have to do is make a universal installer.
But then again, Microsoft will probably want people to buy 2011.

 

[slrandall]

Can't update

I'm unable to install this update for some reason. I have OS X 10.6.7, but I must have missed the MS Office 14.1.1 update. But it seems rather silly that Microsoft might require you to have the most recent previous update in order to get this one. Is that the case? Or am I missing something?

 

[Tucom]

Hey Microsoft has been on the ball lately it seems? Props to them, and respectively Bill Gates and Jobs respect one another, but is Office still the top dog or is there any kind of Apple alternative like iWorks?

 

[su8pack1]

After I updated I lost everything on my iphone contacts and callendar after sync. I had to go in throuh library, prefs and delete all the Outlook stuff and re sync.

 

[ProFont]

I wonder if Outlook is still a massive letdown after this update? Sadly changes are that it still is. Wasn't Outlook supposed to be a multi-threaded, Cocoa-infused monster? What happened to that? Why does the UI freeze up all the time? Is there a way to make it usable?

I'm hoping that Lion brings something new to the table, because Snow Leopard's Exchange-support doesn't quite cut it once you go beyond plain mail and very basic calendering.

 

[minik]

This update also brings Office 2011 to 100% Lion friendly. Previously some components were PowerPC-only.

 

[FroMann]

Good to see some updates before Lions release.

I wonder why Microsoft office for Mac is still so popular when alternatives like open office are available.

Better UI, compatibility, and support seeing how 2004 and 2008 are getting updates.

 

[accidental]

I don't know how many times I've requested that they fix a clipboard bug in Word that's been there since at least Word 2008 and, depressingly, is still in 2011. Still not fixed.

It results in text copied from Word pasting into InDesign as a PNG image of the text. So frustrating.

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Why don't you update it to at least Tiger? Tiger is better than Panther in every conceivable way...

The only thing I'm missing is dashboard, and Panther takes 1/2 as much RAM.

 

[acurafan]

Good to see Microsoft still supporting older software. I wish Apple would do similar at times.

legacy support and roadmaps are not in their dictionary

 

[Phil A.]

I wonder why Microsoft office for Mac is still so popular when alternatives like open office are available.

Possibly because OpenOffice still doesn't have 100% compatibility with Word. I prefer to use Pages when I'm not having to send documents out to other users and then LibreOffice but have just had to re-install Office 2011 on my Mac because some documents created in Word still don't display properly in either Pages, OpenOffice or LibreOffice.
If you need guaranteed compatibility with Office Documents, you need Microsoft Office...

 

[MartiNZ]

The only thing I'm missing is dashboard, and Panther takes 1/2 as much RAM.

Missing and Dashboard in the same sentence. See something new every day .

Great to see MS updating for Lion before it is out - that must be unprecedented? I wonder, however, if they will -ever- 64-bit cocoa-ise Office. Mind you I also wonder if they will ever add an English (New Zealand) dictionary to the Mac version.

As for using MS Office vs free alternatives, Microsoft actually does a good job with the UI, and actually does a good job, albeit not perfect, with compatibility with Windows, which is pretty much the point. When saying it has been made Lion-friendly, does that include things like full-screen widget and all edge resizing? Colour me impressed if so!

 

[Phil A.]

When saying it has been made Lion-friendly, does that include things like full-screen widget and all edge resizing? Colour me impressed if so!

All edge Resizing: Yes (although I don't think Microsoft had anything to do with this as they still have the grab handle: I think it's just global to Lion)
Full-screen widget: No

 

[Mat40Mac]

Not all it's cracked up to be

I'd love it if they would fix that damn problem with copy and paste in Word 2011. I don't know how many times Word has crashed on me after attempting the most rudimentary copy and paste. I updated this morning and a document I've been working on for over an hour just crashed after I copied and tried to past three (3) words from one paragraph to another...Urggggggggggggh

 

[ratzzo]

Its a big one too. It popped up for me yesterday.

The bigger, the better! That means more fixes. Either way, I've been using MS 2011 for quite some time and I haven't noticed any bugs, other than the fact that sometimes when I try to quit something I hadn't saved, the save popup disappears and I gotta force quit.

Good to see the update is free as well!