Microsoft Corp. on Monday released the first service packs for the Visual Studio 2008 software development platform and the accompanying .Net Framework 3.5 programming framework, offering improvements ...

Microsoft has updated the Windows Service Pack Blocker Tool Kit to include Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. As has been the case with previous service packs, soon after SP1 ...

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 of an ...

Microsoft announced new service packs today for its Configuration Manager components of both System Center 2012 and System Center 2012 R2. These service packs are adding "deployment, upgrade and ...

The final SQL Server 2012 service pack is now available for download. The latest official release for the half-decade-old version of Microsoft's database management system includes a rollup of all ...

Microsoft wants enterprise users to know that the tools that block service packs from automatically upgrading XP to SP3 and Vista to SP1 will expire in a couple of months. However, even without the ...