Why should I update Office 2003?

[Aras]

I often hear from people that there are no reasons to update Office 2003. Why
update when things work is the usual argument. I myself load down most
updates.
Any comments?

 

[Tom Pepper Willett]

Security fixes?

Tom
|I often hear from people that there are no reasons to update Office 2003.
Why
| update when things work is the usual argument. I myself load down most
| updates.
| Any comments?
|

 

[Aras]

Thank you Tom.
Yes, I think so too and why should Microsoft bother about updates for no
reason? I hoped that if there were members on the board who do not update
would explain how they are thinking.
I would like to rate your answer Tom, just dont know how to do it.

 

[Peter Foldes]

List of issues that the service pack fixes
Office 2003 SP2 fixes the issues that are described in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:


906460 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906460/) Issues that are fixed in Access 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906342 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906342/) Issues that are fixed in Excel 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906341 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906341/) Issues that are fixed in FrontPage 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906426 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906426/) Issues that are fixed in InfoPath 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906234 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906234/) Issues that are fixed in Office 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906451 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906451/) Issues that are fixed in Outlook 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906340 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906340/) Issues that are fixed in PowerPoint 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906339 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906339/) Issues that are fixed in Publisher 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
906338 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906338/) Issues that are fixed in Word 2003 by Office 2003 Service Pack 2
Security bulletins that are associated with the service pack
Office 2003 SP2 addresses the issues that are described in the following Microsoft Security Bulletins:


890169 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890169/) MS05-023: Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Word could lead to remote code execution
884933 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884933/) MS04-027: Vulnerability in WordPerfect converter could allow code execution
833987 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/833987/) MS04-028: Buffer overrun in JPEG processing (GDI+) could allow code execution
Earlier released updates that this service pack includes
Office 2003 SP2 includes these earlier released updates:


842532 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/842532/) Description of Office 2003 Service Pack 1
873378 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873378/) Description of the security update for Office 2003: WordPerfect 5.x Converter: September 14, 2004
838905 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/838905/) Description of the Office 2003 security update: September 14, 2004
873381 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/873381/) Description of the updates for Office 2003 French grammar checker: November 9, 2004
887982 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887982/) Description of the update for InfoPath 2003: December 14, 2004
887980 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887980/) Description of the update for Office 2003: February 8, 2005
885828 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/885828/) Description of the update for Office 2003: February 8, 2005
892258 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/892258/) Description of the updates for the Office 2003 French spelling checker and thesaurus: April 12, 2005
887979 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/887979/) Description of the security update for Word 2003: April 12, 2005
Additionally, Office 2003 SP2 includes the Office 2003 Tablet PC update: Improved Ink Recognition update. For more information about this update, visit the following Microsoft Web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=31634D79-34AD-494D-8108-80085ACE23BE (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=31634D79-34AD-494D-8108-80085ACE23BE)