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Security Update for Office 2008 now available

If you happen to use Microsoft Office 2008 as your office suite of choice, Microsoft has an update for you. This security update, which brings the suite to version 12.0.1, features "several changes that improve security, stability, and performance" and includes "fixes for users of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard." Sync behavior in Entourage and a file corruption bug in PowerPoint are among the areas of improvement.

The update also features "fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code." That's good because we don't want that, do we?

To download this new update, head on over to the Microsoft Mac Business Unit site and go to the Downloads section. For a full explanation of what this update does, check out the Microsoft support article.

As with any update, be sure to let us know what happens if you decide to apply it.

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asian8

I did the update as well and experienced Entourage only reporting 12.0.0

Rebooted, checked Entourage again and it still reported 12.0.0

Uninstalled Office and examined the contents in ~Trash, and noticed that the .pkg for Entourage_12.0.1 was not there. All other applications - Excel, Powerpoint and Word, had their 12.0.1 packages removed and placed in Trash.

Re-installed and re-applied update and this time, Size of update was different and all applications were updated. I wouldnt go with them saying if one is updated all are.

I found that even in my install logs, Entourage was not being touched at all with the update {1st go around}

March 12 2008 at 10:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ben

This was not easy to install :-(
Here's what worked for me:
Copy the installer from the image to the desktop (or somewhere else) to get rid of the "error running preflight"-message.

March 12 2008 at 4:43 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Peter Payne

Man, could Excel be any slower? My wife uses it all the time, and on her Macbook Air it's unusable. Fingers crossed that this speeds it up. She's mad as hell that she can't get her work done.

March 11 2008 at 10:34 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
MarkyMark

"fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of a computer's memory by using malicious code."

Every Microsoft Office update for the last ten years or so has included this wording in the description. What does it mean???

March 11 2008 at 9:32 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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williamlane

Um, maybe that they're STILL working on the problem, after all those years?

:)

March 11 2008 at 10:38 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Dewey

This is the message I get when trying to install

"You cannot install Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac 12.0.1 Update on this volume. A version of the software required to install this update was not found on this volume."

Anyone know why, or better yet how to fix it? Thanks

March 11 2008 at 6:20 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Ruben

Does this also fix the very annoying FONT SIZE error!?

March 11 2008 at 5:45 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
ploink

Seems it also f***d up my spotlight index - or something else >:-( mds and mdsworker are each taking a huge amount of the CPU

March 11 2008 at 5:36 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Arnoz

- It's still painfully slow.
- I still have the "not enough memory" message when I open 2-3 (small) Excel spreadsheets, even though I have got 2GB of ram and Activity Monitor tells me I have 500+ MB free.
- I still have issues with Exposé and Spaces.
I will therefore continue to use iWork, which I paid 59€ as a student...

March 11 2008 at 5:24 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott K

The notification sound bug is still there. It worked for a few minutes, but then stopped again. Also, pre and post update I have a problem with Entourage behind a proxy. When I first open Entourage it sometimes gets stuck and won't allow me to enter in the proxy info. I have to force quit and reopen a few times before it will finally take the proxy info. After that, it works fine. Thoughts?

March 11 2008 at 5:06 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Thomas

114 MB. Sheesh.

It better fix something.

March 11 2008 at 4:55 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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