Originally posted on December 11, 2007 @ 9:35 pm
In what could be considered a rarity for the company, Microsoft recently announced that it Service Pack 1 for Microsoft Office 2007 will be arriving earlier than the expected date. Previous releases suggested that SP1 will be made available by early 2008. But it has been announced that it will be made available by today, December 11.
One of the factors that brought about this fast deployment is the fact that testing was done for just a few months and was only limited to big enterprises who are part of their Technology Adopter program.
The limited testing decision was arrived at because the SP1 team thinks that there are no real modifications in the release that would have a big impact on users. Is Microsoft implementing some new AGILE methodology that could result in faster delivery dates from the company or is this a big oversight on their team? Let’s see what the first batch of news will bring after the deployment of SP1.