“Microsoft on Wednesday released the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 which combines improvements, new features and previously released updates in a single update pack, say a ghacks post. Microsoft Office 2010 is a productivity suite for Microsoft Windows and is the successor to Microsoft 2007.
Microsoft notes that Office 2010 SP1 contains all “public updates that were released through June 2011″ and all “cumulative updates that were released through April 2011″ in addition to “improvements in stability, performance, and in security”.
The description of Office 2010 SP1 page details the new features and updates of the service pack. Here is a short list of the most promising new features, fixes and updates.
- Stability, Performance and backward compatibility of Excel 2010 has been improved.
- Office 365 support has been added to Outlook 2010
- PowerPoint Viewer is now included when selecting the Package for CD option
- Fixes the following error message in Word 2010: Microsoft Office Word has encountered a problem and needs to close.
- Fixes Word co-authoring issues and conflicts.
- Open OneNote notebooks from Windows Live Sky Drive
- OneNote synchronization improvements with SharePoint and Windows Live SkyDrive.
As is obvious from the above and the official listing at the Microsoft KnowledgeBase, there has not been many feature additions.
A lot of the features improve cloud connectivity or fix minor issues. That is, apart from all the updates, especially security related, that the majority of Office 2010 users have probably downloaded before.
The 32-bit Service Pack 1 for Office 2010 has a size of 361 Megabytes, the 64-bit SP1 one of 439.
The update is available for free if downloaded from the Internet. Your can download the Office 2010 Service Pack 1 from the links given below:
Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 32-bit Edition [link] Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2010 64-bit Edition [link]