Jeff, I am just not seeing it. The links you included in the article point to the 12.0.1 update for Office 2008 which was released 2 months ago. MS AutoUpdate also sees nothing new. Am I missing something? I'd love an update that makes this Intel native POS run as well ass 2004 under Rosetta.

Unless MS posted it, then pulled it after it found that it broke a lot of stuff after install. You know, testing and all is a high priority @ MS. I say this cynically and sarcastically.

Yeah, I'm not seeing it out there either through the auto-updater or as a download.

It says right in the article that it will not be available until noon Pacific Time.

Service Pack 1 will be available May 13 at 12PM PT/3PM ET

It says available "by" noon. This is different from not available until and available at.

Looks like the "by noon" report was correct. It's before noon Pacific, and I see the update on the site. If you click on Office 2008 at the bottom of the linked page, you'll see Service Pack 1 (12.1.0) listed there for download. Enjoy!

I installed SP1 and now word/excel/etc won't start. I get the set up assistant, and that is it. I click finish and the updater starts and that is it.

This sucks! Anyone else have the issue?

Guest @ 9:29 AM -Actually if you weren't such a tool you wouldn't be making such statements. TMO updated it shortly after I posted. The last line wasn't there initially.

Come again when your meds are working.

Same here. Is anyone else experiencing this? More importantly, is there a workaround?

yeah i am having the same issues

I just bought office 2008 and installed SP1 and when I tried to open any of the applications I got the set up assistant even after registering the product. I had to uninstall and install office all over again this time without the update.