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Check out these MSDN Virtual Labs and TechNet Virtual Labs if you haven’t already. These are a series of guided, hands-on labs which can be completed in 90 minutes or less. The best part is these labs don’t require any installation and are available to you immediately for FREE. Here are the topics that are currently available to you.

MSDN Virtual Labs

ASP.NET 2.0
ASP.NET
BizTalk Server
Commerce Server
Fritz Onion’s Intro to ASP.NET
Internet Information Services (IIS)
JPlusN (J+N)
Microsoft Expression
.NET Framework 3.0
Soup to Nuts
Visual Studio
Visual Studio 2008
Visual Studio Team System
Visual C#
Visual J#
Visual Basic
Visual C++
Connected Systems
Data Access and Storage
Office
Security
Smart Client
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2005 Upgrade
Visual SourceSafe
Web Services
Windows Embedded CE 6.0
Windows Live
Windows Mobile
Windows Vista
Windows XP Embedded
TechNet Virtual Labs

TechNet Virtual Labs

Antigen
BizTalk Server
Configuration Manager
Enterprise Search
Exchange Server
Forefront Security
Groove Server
Identity Integration Server (MIIS)
Internet Information Services (IIS)
Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server
Office Communications Server
Office System
Operations Manager
SQL Server 2005
SQL Server 2000
SharePoint Server
Systems Management Server (SMS)
Windows Mobile
Windows Rights Management Services (RMS)
Windows Server 2003 R2
Windows Server 2008
Windows SharePoint Services
Windows Small Business Server
Windows Vista

Okay, may be not but that’s what Microsoft’s Web site claims.

Microsoft has made the Office 2007 Service Pack 1 available for download. For a list of issues that were fixed in SP1 check out Microsoft’s Knowledge Base article 936982: Description of the 2007 Microsoft Office suite Service Pack 1. Service Pack 1 will install even if a publicly available update has already been installed on your computer. The supported Operating Systems include Windows Server 2003 SP 1, Windows Vista and Windows XP SP 2.

Office 2007 SP1 update applies to the following programs:
Microsoft Office Basic 2007
Microsoft Office Enterprise 2007
Microsoft Office Home and Student 2007
Microsoft Office Professional 2007
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2007
Microsoft Office Small Business 2007
Microsoft Office Small Business Management 2007
Microsoft Office Standard 2007
Microsoft Office Ultimate 2007
Microsoft Office Access® 2007
Microsoft Office Excel® 2007
Microsoft Office InfoPath® 2007
Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007
Microsoft Office PowerPoint® 2007
Microsoft Office Publisher® 2007
Microsoft Office Word 2007
Microsoft Office OneNote® 2007
Microsoft Office Groove® 2007

Click here to download Office 2007 SP1.

I just experience this problem recently where Word 2007 running on Vista Ultimate kept crashing. I was able to start it but couldn’t use the mouse (e.g. couldn’t highlight words or right-click). On closing Word it will crash with the following error:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: WINWORD.EXE
Application Version: 12.0.4518.1014
Application Timestamp: 45428028
Fault Module Name: mso.dll
Fault Module Version: 12.0.6017.5000
Fault Module Timestamp: 461db01f
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 00039239
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033

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I tried the Office Diagnostic but that didn’t help. Then I used System Restore but that didn’t solve the problem either. I started Word in safe mode (winword /a) and that worked. As a temporary workaround, I created a shortcut that runs Word 2007 with /a switch (safe mode) until I figure out exactly what’s causing the problem.

Microsoft’s Excel application contains a vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to gain access to a system.

The flaw affects multiple versions of the spreadsheet software, including Excel 2000, 2002 and 2003, as well as versions of Microsoft Office containing those versions. It can also be manipulated in Excel Viewer 2003 and Office 2004 for Mac. Click here for more details.