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A Tale of Two Service Packs

In the midst of Windows 7 hype (which we're happily contributing to), poor old Vista's second service pack is finished. So, uh, be on the lookout for that...if you or your customers are unfortunate enough to actually be running Vista.

As for Office 2007, SP2 for the product that sports the ever-popular ribbon interface is out there now.

Posted by Lee Pender on April 30, 2009


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