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New Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 Service Packs Roll Out

Posted by Soulskill on from the packed-with-services dept.

jones_supa writes "While service packs are out of style for the Windows operating system, Microsoft has pushed out another service pack (SP2) for both Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 products. According to the company, they provide key updates and fixes across servers, services and applications including security, stability, and performance enhancements and better compatibility with Windows 8, Internet Explorer 10, Office 2013, and SharePoint 2013. The updates are available through Windows Update and as separate downloads."

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  1. sharepoint by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is anybody happy with using sharepoint?

    1. Re:sharepoint by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Which part of "Microsoft product" did you not understand?

  2. Please note... by FaxeTheCat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com, and I think most people around here know about it, so we do not need another one.

    1. Re:Please note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      ...there is already a site more or less dedicated to announcements about Microsoft Service Packs. It is called Microsoft.com, and I think most people around here know about it, so we do not need another one.

      Did you complain about the /. article announcing the latest update to Apache OpenOffice yesterday, or is that different?

      Also, I can't help but feel you've missed the point of aggregator sites like Slashdot. Part of their purpose is saving you from having to constantly monitoring a pile of different sites for their version of news.

    2. Re:Please note... by Gadget_Guy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Anybody running an MS infrastructure who is getting MS product news from /. have a serious issue with priorities.

      Here's a quick tip to make Slashdot more efficient for you. If you don't want to read about updates to Microsoft products, just skip over the story and read the next one. That way you can filter out the articles that don't interest you while those people who don't want to spend every day with their eyes glued to Microsoft's website can still get the information that they need. Remember that it is supposed to be "News for nerds" and not "News for FaxeTheCat".

      The mistake that you made here today was wasting your time writing five posts to say that this topic doesn't interest you.

  3. And this is news because? by jargonburn · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I mean, yes, the service pack is claim to improve compatibility with Microsoft's most recent cop-out of an OS. In my experience, people buy new copies Office infrequently enough [anecdotal evidence is not a citation] to warrant a little extra effort on their part. This is probably in part additional groundwork to convince people to upgrade to Windows 8.1/Blue as it comes to the market.

    Probably the most important bits are the updating the Web Apps and improved compatibility with IE10. IE10 is usually fine, I can almost forget that it's not IE9....unless one of the irritating bugs occurs with it on one of my clients' machines. (To be fair, I can't say I've noticed those problems with it in Windows 8, only with Windows 7 machines that have had IE10 installed).
    Still, I just don't think this was worth posting to Slashdot.

    On another note, this bit at the end of the article caught my eye:

    Even though these releases are service packs, and designed to fix problems, Microsoft has listed a couple of known issues associated with installing them...Microsoft recommends installing a particular update first...on a computer that has Windows Server 2003 SP2

    And yet, they still couldn't be bothered to add in logic to detect the described circumstance and include that particular update as a prerequisite to the service pack.
    Just....*ugh*.

  4. One good thing by cellocgw · · Score: 2, Interesting

    On the bright side: a Service Pack couldn't possibly make Office2010 any worse than it already is. (or COULD it? creepy music...)

    I mean, really: do you know how embarrassing it is to send a finished document to your boss, have him throw it up on the screen in a review meeting, and see the formatting fouled up, all because his Office default is set to load the default Styles from his template, rather than stick with the ones in the (corporate template based) incoming document?

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    1. Re:One good thing by tibit · · Score: 2

      If you mean it's embarrassing to the boss, then sure, I agree. Can't help them all.

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  5. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Nimey · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, not all MS SPs are. I give you Windows Vista, where you needed SP1 to be installed before SP2 would.

    Win7 would probably have been the same way if MS had bothered to make a second SP for it.

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  6. Re:Are Office 2010 SPs cumulative? by Nimey · · Score: 3, Informative

    The answer is no, you don't need SP1 installed first. I have experimentally verified this.

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