
The Office team beat its own deadline of early 2008 and will
release Office 2007 Service Pack 1 Dec. 11. In an unusual move, the software maker limited testing of the update to the productivity suite to a few months and only at large enterprises in its Technology Adopter Program, as well as internally at Microsoft, to shave time off the production schedule, sources told eWEEK. Additionally, Office:Mac 2008
has gone gold. The third service pack or Windows XP has also
seen its first RC.