Microsoft Office Basic Edition 2003 is the basic personal and business productivity solution that provides familiar, easy-to-use document authoring, analysis, presentation, and communication applications. It also benefits from the integration with Microsoft SharePoint Services and XML-support. This Edition includes the core Office programs: Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office Outlook 2003. Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) contains significant security enhancements, stability improvements, and performance improvements. Some of the fixes that are included with Office 2003 SP2 were previously released in separate updates. Office 2003 SP2 combines the previously released fixes into one update.