Macenstein

Yesterday Microsoft showcased some of the upcoming features of Office 2008 for Mac, which will ship later this year. However, Microsoft’s team has apparently not completely given up on Office 2004, and today released a 58MB security and bug fix update, available for download either via Microsoft’s AutoUpdate feature, or by downloading here.

The update addresses the following issues:

Improvements for all Office 2004 applications

• 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 Word 2004

• Compatibility with RTF documents is improved

This update improves compatibility with recent changes to the way Rich Text Format (RTF) documents are created by Microsoft Office Word 2003 for Windows.

Improvements for Excel 2004

• Standard deviation is calculated correctly in PivotTable reports

This update fixes an issue that causes standard deviation calculations to produce inaccurate results when the calculations are used in PivotTable reports.

Improvements for Entourage 2004

• Calendar events scheduled on or after March 11, 2007 display correctly in all calendar views

This update fixes an issue for users of Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later that causes any calendar event scheduled on or after March 11, 2007 to display on a time slot that is one hour ahead of its original start time. This issue affects all meetings that occur on or after March 11, 2007, including recurring meetings.

• Japanese postal code dictionary is updated

The Japanese postal code dictionary is updated with the latest information as of June 2006.