Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the first service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 programming framework, offering improvements ...

A major software update that has been added to the latest shipping version of the full product. After a service pack has been released to the public, it may take some time before all the packaged ...

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 ...

Are there any real reasons -- other than psychological ones -- to wait for a first service pack (SP) of Windows Vista before deploying? But some say service packs still do matter. Over on the Windows ...

Microsoft has updated the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit to include Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As has been the case with previous service packs, soon after SP1 ...

Windows XP users may now download a fourth service pack for the 13-year-old operating system, but it isn’t coming from Microsoft. Instead, this Windows XP “SP4” comes from a single developer, who ...

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 ...

One of the most vexing aspects of a Windows 7 reinstall is that even after you install the operating system and Service Pack 1, you can expect to spend a ridiculous amount of time applying patches ...