COMMENTARY--In August 2002, the IT community was abuzz with a Microsoft "breakthrough" called Service Pack 1. The mega software patch mainly comprised of security updates for the company's Windows XP ...

It was supposed to solve the gaping holes in Windows XP's defences almost at a stroke, and in the run-up to its August 2004 launch Microsoft promised an unrelenting campaign to persuade businesses and ...

Windows Vista Service Pack 2 is set to be released as a public beta version Thursday, Microsoft has confirmed. The program, which has been under limited testing since October, will become available on ...

Microsoft has released the second service pack for its Windows Vista and Server 2008 operating systems. Vista SP2 and Server 2008 SP2, which pull together various updates to the operating systems that ...

On the desktop side, Office 2007 SP2 makes it possible to open, edit and save documents in version 1.1 of the OpenDocument Format for Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The ability to save Office files as ...

Yesterday everyone was scrambling to get their hands on the public release of the Release Candidate builds of Windows 7 RC and/or Windows Server 2008 R2. However, it seems that the same day Microsoft ...

Hey all, I've got a 1.3 T-bird w/ an I will KK266 with 256 megs of ram, 20 gig hd. <BR>I recently decided to update Win2k with the newest service pack. I did the critical update, rebooted and ...

Microsoft has hit the news once again by invoking its next major update to Windows XP — called Service Pack 2 (SP2) — in response to the significant security risks that have emerged over the past ...

Office 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) is primarily a collection of previously-released security fixes, with some new additions thrown in for good measure. According to Microsoft, it also includes stability ...

Microsoft today announced Service Pack 2 for Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Microsoft also released SP2 for Office Web Apps on July 21, which can be downloaded here. SP2 contains stability and ...