Garage Series: The Great Race--did rolling out Office just get faster?

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In this episode, the intrepid Garage Series hosts explore the change in guard of compatibility tools. Conducting the great race of Office installs, they catch up with Office engineer John Hoegger about Microsoft's own global implementation of the new Office. Watch as they examine user training, compatibility and pushing out the bits to answer whether or not rolling out Office just got faster.

Be sure to mark your calendar for new episodes, and especially to tune in to Garage Series Live! on Wednesday, April 3 at 9am Pacific Time, for lessons learned on real world deployment with Paul Thurrott from the Supersite for Windows, along with early adopters and Office engineers to discuss lessons learned and deployment secrets for the new Office, including live Q&A.

Learn more at www.microsoft.com/garage where you can discover additional resources and check out the complete archive of all previous Garage Series shows.

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Windows 7 SP1 to start rolling out on Windows Update

Starting tomorrow, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will begin rolling out automatically on Windows Update.  Updating customers to Windows 7 SP1 is part of our ongoing effort to ensure continued support and improved security updates for customers who have not yet installed SP1. Windows 7 SP1 was previously available on Windows Update but required user action to install.  Starting tomorrow, the installation will be fully automatic with no user action required for those who already have Automatic Update enabled.  SP1 will be released gradually over the coming weeks to all customers on the RTM version of Windows 7.  The service pack will take slightly longer to install compared to other updates.  To ensure Service Pack 1 is installed without issue, customers should check for sufficient free disk space and that AC power is present on a laptop.  If additional space needs to be created, we recommend using the Disk Cleanup tool to delete some files so that the service pack will install.  If the service pack installation is interrupted, it will reattempt to install automatically after the next restart.

This update only applies to Windows 7 consumer PCs that are not managed by a Microsoft management tool such as Systems Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) or WSUS Server. SCCM and WSUS administrators still have full control over the release of Service Pack 1. This remains unchanged.

As mentioned by Stephen Rose here on the Springboard Series Blog - Windows 7 RTM (with no service pack) will no longer be supported as of April 9th, 2013.

If you have any issues with the installation of Windows 7 SP1 through Windows Update, please visit this support page on Windows.com or our Microsoft Community forum for Windows 7.

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