Microsoft releases Office 2004 11.2.5: Improved Security; Exchange performance boost; bugs fixed

[posted Tuesday, July 11th]

Microsoft has released Office 2004 11.2.5, the latest release of its flagship productivity suite for Mac OS X.

To download this update, run Microsoft AutoUpdate in your Mac's /Applications folder. This update is not yet available on the Web.

Among the enhancements:

Improvements for Office 2004 as a whole:

• Security is improved. This update fixes vulnerabilities in Office 2004 that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.

Improvements for Excel 2004:

• Security is improved. This update fixes vulnerabilities in Microsoft Excel 2004 for Mac that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer's memory with malicious code.

Improvements for Entourage 2004:

• Calendar events no longer display the warning "Event and computer time zones do not match" when opened
• This update fixes an issue for users of Entourage 2004 11.2.3 and Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later that caused all open calendar event windows to display the warning: "Event and computer time zones do not match. In Calendar Views, the event time is adjusted to display correctly."
• Exchange and Entourage performance improved. This update improves Exchange performance in organizations with Macintosh client computers running Entourage. Office identities created before installing Office 2004 Service Pack 2 and subsequently upgraded to Office 2004 version 11.2.x had synchronization problems if the Exchange mailbox was moved after the identity was upgraded.

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