Microsoft released Service Pack 2 for Office 2008 for Mac on July 20, 2009. This is focussed to improve speed, stability and compatibility. With this update, Microsoft has equipped Apple Mac users with a tool to browse and share documents on SharePoint technologies and Office Live Workspaces. This is critical for business users and end consumers from an experience perspective. This goes on to say that Microsoft is investing heaviliy into providing cross platform user experience to Apple customers also.

Microsoft says that lot of customer feedback was incorporated to create SP2. Following are the key features of this free update to Mac users:

  1. Custom path Animations (PowerPoint 2008): This feature adds the functionality to author motion path animations. Prior to SP2, users could only playback motion path animations.
  2. Default Theme (PowerPoint 2008): This feature provides the functionality to define a default theme to a presentation deck, which was not possible for Apple users earlier.
  3. Increased Speed (Word and Excel 2008): This update primarily impacts launch and scroll speed for both Microsoft Word and Excel 
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