Next Tuesday, December 11th 2007, the Office System team here at Microsoft expects to announce the availability for download of the 2007 Microsoft® Office System Service Pack 1 (SP1). This is sooner than previously announced for the "release to web" when the target date was announced at the IT Forum in Europe earlier this year!

The 2007 Microsoft® Office System Service Pack 1 (SP1) reflects unceasing efforts by the Microsoft Office System team to address customer concerns. Nearly all of the improvements included in the 2007 Office System SP1 are in response to direct feedback from power users at large organizations or indirect feedback from home and office users through the Dr. Watson bug-reporting system.

By tapping these extensive customer-feedback channels, the Microsoft Office System team has targeted the issues that customers care about most. As a result, the 2007 Office System SP1 will deliver significant stability and performance improvements to the applications that home and office workers rely on every day.

The 2007 Office System SP1 will be critical service pack for a variety of reasons. It will eliminate many deployment barriers to deployment you may have in your environment, it will provide support for Windows Server 2008, and will provide critical fixes to products such as Project and Project Server.

News source: Technet Blogs (Upstate NY Technology Team)



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(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Xerxes on 05 Dec 2007 - 11:37
I've been so caught up with XP SP3 and Vista SP1 I completely forgot about Office 2007 anyway, sounds good to me, look forward to grabbing it once it is out
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Torment on 05 Dec 2007 - 14:26
I take it you mean Office 2003 SP3 ?
Quote this comment #1.2 Posted by AlfredSka on 06 Dec 2007 - 00:27
Quote - (Torment said @ #1.1)
I take it you mean Office 2003 SP3 ?

No, I'm pretty sure he/she meant WinXP SP3 and Vista SP1. They're both in beta and have quite a buzz about them.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Tantawi on 05 Dec 2007 - 11:50
Nice
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by Mad_Griffith on 05 Dec 2007 - 12:02
I guess it will be automatic for those who have got Microsoft Update (on Windows XP) or Windows Update (on Windows Vista).
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by vetneufuse on 05 Dec 2007 - 12:18
Wonder if they fixed the issue in outlook where if you order your messages from oldest (at top) to newest (at the bottom) that when it starts it starts showing the message list at some random position instead of at thenewest message
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by quanta on 11 Dec 2007 - 22:58
It looks like they did. I saw it in the release notes at: http://download.microsoft.com/download/D/5...Changes_all.xls

Very annoying to get the changelog. You have to go to office.microsoft.com. Click on Office 2007 SP1. Scroll down a see a small text link about release notes. then click another text link which is a broken link (points to a .XLSX file when in fact it is a XLS. )
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by KevinRGood on 05 Dec 2007 - 16:10
Is it possible to slipstream this sucker?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by RottGutt on 05 Dec 2007 - 18:59
Actually, he was probably referring to the upcoming Windows XP SP3!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by kiddingguy on 05 Dec 2007 - 20:29
can't wait... i'm curious as to what the improvements are
(3 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by trip21 on 05 Dec 2007 - 22:00
I completely satisfied with Office 2k7 I don't see what they need to fix/improve
Quote this comment #8.1 Posted by :: Lyon :: on 05 Dec 2007 - 23:01
Speed or performance can be on of them (opening Outlook with lots of emails, etc)
Quote this comment #8.2 Posted by nunjabusiness on 06 Dec 2007 - 02:07
Quote - (:: Lyon :: said @ #8.1)
Speed or performance can be on of them (opening Outlook with lots of emails, etc)


Absolutely! Outlook 2007 is a dog compared to 2003 - speedwise.
I hope to christ they have dealt with several issues there.

BTW, XP SP3 is smokin!
I downloaded it from MSDN today and got it on several boxes, which showed immediate improvement.
Quote this comment #8.3 Posted by kiddingguy on 06 Dec 2007 - 22:46
Quote - (:: Lyon :: said @ #8.1)
Speed or performance can be on of them (opening Outlook with lots of emails, etc)


Maybe you could clean up and delete some old emails (and large attachments)
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