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Last week, I blogged about issues installing the Visual Studio 2005 beta and how installs need to be easier and better. After all, Microsoft has been stating for some time now that patches need to be easier to install. That leads me to Office 2003, Service Pack 1, which was released yesterday. Much of what is in the SP is not just bug fixes, but security updates. For example, the spam filtering in Outlook is supposed to be improved. However, installation of the SP is too difficult. I should not be required to have my Office installation disks. The SP should install without them. Right now, my disk is at home and I'm at the office. This means I can't patch today. Other people will give up entirely because they either can't find the media, or in the case of a corporate environment, don't have access to it. You can find the Office 2003, SP1 here.