Survey and Desktop Applications: Required Updates
Required Update for Microsoft Office Professional 2003, Office Professional XP, Access 2003 and Access 2002
The following information was received at the University of Iowa from Microsoft, regarding required updates for future deployments of select Microsoft Office product:.
Please note: When performing the updates below, you may be prompted for your Office 2003 or Office XP installation disk.
Background:
It was recently decided in a court of law that certain portions of code found in Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003, Microsoft Office Access 2003, Microsoft Office XP Professional and Microsoft Access 2002 infringe a third-party patent. As a result, Microsoft must make available a revised version of these products with the allegedly infringing code replaced.
Action required:
As a result of the above ruling, you are required to:
- Install Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (Office 2003 SP2) for all your future deployments of Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003,
- Install the Microsoft Office XP Service Pack 3 Patch (Office XP SP3 Patch) for all your future deployments of Office XP Professional and Access 2002
Action requested:
To keep your current systems in alignment with your future deployments of these products, Microsoft is requesting that you also update all your current Office Professional Edition 2003 and Office Access 2003 installations with Office 2003 SP2, and Office XP Professional and Access 2002 installations with the Office XP SP3 Patch.
How do I do this?:
You can obtain both Office 2003 SP2 and the Office XP SP3 Patch by going to the website listed below and downloading it directly, or by contacting your reseller.
Please visit our site at http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdate/default.aspx.
Sincerely,
Microsoft Licensing, GP
