A collection of software fixes and enhancements that is applied to an installed version of an operating system. Always a major update, service packs are typically downloaded from the Web as part of an ...

As Microsoft moves toward shorter and shorter release cycles -- meaning a new version of Windows and other server products every 12 to 18 months, in all likelihood -- I'm wondering if their marketing ...

If you’re running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or even Service Pack 3, what happens if you have to perform a system recovery using your original XP CD? Hassles, that’s what. Reader Ralph recently ...

For many, the official release of a new Microsoft operating system–such as Windows 7–is just the starting of a clock. They will not buy the new OS until Service Pack 1 is released. Why? Microsoft has ...

Last week, Service Pack 2 for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 arrived on MSDN, TechNet, and Connect. We noted that testers would not be getting slipstreamed ISOs of the operating systems but ...

Microsoft's Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack (SP) 1 now has an official due date: Same time as Longhorn Server, meaning the latter half of 2007. Microsoft went public with its Exchange Server 2007 ...

The forthcoming Service Pack 2 for Windows XP is actually a significant upgrade for Microsoft's OS, delivering much-needed security enhancements. We highlight the key changes. Service Pack 1 (SP1) for ...

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 ...

The engineering team responsible for building and releasing service packs has reportedly been told there won't be another service pack for Windows 7. It marks the first time in multiple releases that ...

Microsoft late Wednesday released Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, a collection of security enhancements that aligns the server with the latest release of the Windows XP desktop client. In addition ...

I'm trying to set up a Windows NT 4.0 server on a dual PII from scratch. I've installed 4.0 server and everything looks good. When I got the SP6 cds from Microsoft it said to install service pack 3 ...

Everybody who has used Windows probably remembers installing service packs on their favorite version of Windows. For those who don't know, Windows service packs (or SPs) are packages that include a ...