Service Pack One

[Wood Bat]

Who came up with the idea that a service pack of over 600+ Mb should be a
download? That is about the dumbest decision ever to come out of MS. Even
with a DSL line it would take most of a day and if someone has dialup, an
entire weekend, assuming it didn't get interupted so they'd have to start
over. That is an entire new program and should be sent out on disc. I have
problems with Outlook that I've been told will be fixed by the service pack.
But if the service pack of that size isn't available any other way but a
download, then it's no damn good.

That makes about as much sense as a car manufacturer offering someone a
replacement automobile for the one that won't run if they'll drive the one
that won't run back to the factory - then smuggly telling everyone they
offered to exchange it.

MS is offering to fix their faulty program by replacing it, but to replace
it I have to use the program that doesnt work to download the replacement.
And don't tell me it's not a replacement. 600+ Mb is not a repair. Please be
honest!
--
Albert

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5e3e67a822d1&dg=microsoft.public.officeupdate

 

[neo [mvp outlook]]

I'm a bit confused about your post...

Office 2003 SP3 = 120MB
Office 2007 SP1 = 218MB

Where it gets ugly is when you need the language packs for the UI. The big
question is, if you don't need the Multilingual User Interface packs, why do
you have them installed?

 

[dgmacmi]

Who came up with the idea that a service pack of over 600+ Mb should be a
download? That is about the dumbest decision ever to come out of MS. Even
with a DSL line it would take most of a day and if someone has dialup, an
entire weekend, assuming it didn't get interupted so they'd have to start
over. That is an entire new program and should be sent out on disc. I have
problems with Outlook that I've been told will be fixed by the service
pack.
But if the service pack of that size isn't available any other way but a
download, then it's no damn good.

That makes about as much sense as a car manufacturer offering someone a
replacement automobile for the one that won't run if they'll drive the one
that won't run back to the factory - then smuggly telling everyone they
offered to exchange it.

MS is offering to fix their faulty program by replacing it, but to replace
it I have to use the program that doesnt work to download the replacement.
And don't tell me it's not a replacement. 600+ Mb is not a repair. Please
be
honest!
--
Albert

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http://www.microsoft.com/office/com...5e3e67a822d1&dg=microsoft.public.officeupdate

Go to:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/downloads/FX010383631033.aspx

You can order free copies of the available Service Packs on CD. For Office
2007 Service Pack 1, the site states the it will be available soon.

Don

 

[Majamopuzzle]

I have recently seen this download at 619MB on different clients and
different machines. Some of these were on PC's that had Office 2007 installed
for a few months and others that were brand new setups with Office 2007.
Because of your post I have downloaded the SP1 and the language pack on a CD
.. When SP1 tries to download with its 600+MB size I unselect and set to never
notify again. I then manually install after Windows/Microsoft update is
finished. (One SP1 download estimated 7 hr install !!! Client would love to
pay for that!!)