Microsoft is to releaseOffice 2007 SP1via Automatic Update
from 16 June.
The advance warning from the firm is designed to allow users to
prepare for the major automatic upgrade.
Users have been able to manually download Office 2007 SP1 from
the company's website for the past five months.
SP1 includes Microsoft's new document format Office Open XML,
which was last month approved as an open standard by the
International Organization for Standardization.
Office Open XML is designed to compete against the open source
Open Document
Format.
