Microsoft has announced that they are on schedule to deliver the first service pack for Office 2010 in mid-summer 2011. SharePoint 2010 will also be updated at the same time.
As reported by the Microsoft Office Team Blog, Office 2010 SP1 will update all 40 SKU languages for Office. Microsoft will also update 4 Language Interface Packs: Galician, Basque, Catalan, Serbian Cyrillic.
Office 2010 SP1 will be a cumulative update. That means it will include any updates that have already been publicly released for Office 2010. Furthermore, SP1 will feature a number of new fixes and changes for each product. These will be revealed at a later date.
The public updates that will be included in SP1 are listed below:
- Security and Non-Security Updates for March 2011 – Released March 8, 2011
- Office 2010 February 2011 Cumulative Update (KB 2493730) – Released February 22, 2011
- Security and Non-Security Updates for February 2011 – Released February 8, 2011
- Non-Security Updates for January 2011 – Released January 11, 2011
- Office 2010 December 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2479673) – Released December 14, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for December 2010 – Released December 14, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for November 2010 – Released November 9, 2010
- Office 2010 October 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2449183) – Released October 26, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for October 2010 – Released October 12, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for September 2010 – Released September 14, 2010
- Office 2010 August 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2396341) – Released August 31, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for August 2010 – Released August 10, 2010
- Security and Non-Security Updates for July 2010 – Released July 13, 2010
- Office 2010 June 2010 Cumulative Update (KB 2259686) – Released June 29, 2010
Starting with Office 2007, Microsoft has provided an easy method of installing Office and any corresponding updates at the same time. By dropping any updates into the ‘Updates’ folder, the installer will pick up and install those updates. Further details are available in our Office 2007 SP1 Installation/Slipstream Guide.
Further reading: Microsoft, Office 2010, SP1
