Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) has launched the first service pack for Office 2010, a year after its June 2010 release. Office 2010 SP1 incorporates various security patches, hotfixes and stability and performance improvements. Some tweaks that caught my eye were that PowerPoint 2010's Presenter view will now default to showing the slideshow on a secondary display, and that Outlook 2010 will include support for Office 365, which was launched this week. You can access a list of the improvements and additions here.

Office 2010 SP1 is available as a manual download, and Microsoft apparently will only flag it as an automatic installation in Windows Update a few months down the road. For now, users can download and install the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the software directly, or manually select the Office 2010 SP1 option from Windows Update in the "important update" category.

For more:
- check out this article at PC & Tech Authority
- check out this article at PC Advisor

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