Re: Office 2008 SP1 Update (12.1.0) released

Hi Phillip:

No.  An "Upgrade" adds functionality or new features.  It increments the
left-most number in the version: so, 11.3.9 to 12.0.0

The current file is a Service Release: it does not add any functions or
features at all, it simply repairs the ones that were meant to work in the
first place.

Companies DO sometimes step over the line and add functionality in a
Service Release, but they get yelled at every time they do it by the
System
Administrators of the world.

If it's a Service Release or Service Pack, the Sys Admin does not have to
re-test or re-qualify their operating environment.  For an Upgrade, they
do.

A "Service Release", by the way, will apply stand-alone to any version of
the software going back to the original ****pped version.  It contains
complete replacement files.  (That's why they're so big...)

A "Service Pack" (sometimes called an "Update") does not contain a
complete
set of files, and requires previous service packs to have already been
applied before it can install.

Hope this helps


On 16/05/08 7:22 AM, in article exwkwXttIHA.1236@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Phillip Jones" <pjones1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> What we had as an update was the 130 some mb Patch from 12 to 12.01
> 
> Them the 12.10 to 12.10 180 mb file, is what MS calls a service pack
> (SP) everyone else calls a major Upgrade. Then what come when the go fro
> 12 to 13(14) or 2012 is a complete version upgrade.
> 
> What one shoots for is a two year turn over. But reality is it could be
> anywhere from 2-6 years. :-)
> 
> CyberTaz wrote:
>> 
>> On 5/14/08 2:55 PM, in article u0hYZQftIHA.3804@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> "Phillip Jones" <pjones1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 
>>> Be sure to make it understood. when you refer to *next* version you
are
>>> referring to 2012. Not the next upgrade.
>> 
>> Gee Phillip I'd a-thought that's why she wrote it explicitly as *next
>> version* - which is the same as "upgrade" - rather than *next update*.
>> 
>> Regards |:>)
>> Bob Jones 
>> [MVP] Office:Mac
>> 
>> 

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