MS Office 2003 SP2 heads for recycle bin - patch now

[Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>]

"Microsoft has warned users that it will drop support for Office 2003 Service Pack 2 in three weeks.

The company has urged customers to upgrade to a newer service pack that was involved in a dust-up earlier this year 
over blocked file formats.

The company's policy is to support an Office service pack for 12 months after it releases a successor.
Microsoft rolled out Office 2003 SP3 in September 2007. It always extends that 12-month period to the following month's 
second Tuesday, the day it usually issues security updates.

"Any security updates released on or before October 14 will support both Service Packs 2 and 3,"
said a Microsoft employee identified only as "David" on a company blog. "Security updates released after October 14 
will support only Service Pack 3."

Microsoft has patched 14 vulnerabilities in Office 2003 SP2 in the past two months alone."
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More at
http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=104759&pagtype=all

The source posting is
http://blogs.technet.com/office_sustained_engineering/archive/2008/09/22/upcoming-end-of-support-for-office-2003-service-pack-2-sp2.aspx

Juha-Matti
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