Microsoft regularly releases major updates to its Windows operating systems. Formerly, those updates pushed through comprehensive service packs, but more often these days, they're semi-regular and ...

Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows XP, which was about 130MB (compressed) in size, fixed 324 errors in the operating system. Service Pack 2 (SP2), which will ship in mid-2004 at the latest, is ...

The mega software patch mainly comprised of security updates for the company's Windows XP operating system. Service Pack 1, we were told, was the result of Microsoft's focus on improving the ...

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 22, 2002 — At the third annual Microsoft® Windows® Embedded Developer Conference in Las Vegas today, keynote speaker Todd Warren, general manager of the Embedded and Appliance ...

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 ...

Windows 7 Service Pack 1 is now available from Microsoft’s Website for download, or via Windows Update, and by ordering an installation DVD.Windows 7 SP1 takes roughly 30 minutes to install, and ...

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 ...

Microsoft reached an important milestone Tuesday with the release of the first service pack for Windows Vista, its flagship product. The software update includes security fixes and other patches ...

A number of changes and updates are coming to Vista by way of the upcoming Service Pack 1. We took a look through Microsoft's change log to see just what's new.