Best of the blogs: It’s not for Vista, Exchange, or even XP. The service pack that headline refers to is the easily-missed Office 2007 SP1. “It looks like the Office team has got their act together when it comes to tuning their code paths,” Randall Kennedy writes. No fan of that Vista SP1, Kennedy points out that in addition to typical bug fixes and compatibility tweaks, Office SP1 even brings a performance kick. It doesn’t solve all the suite’s problems, of course, namely code bloat. Related: Is Vista hampering Office 2007 adoption? Green IT: They call it SPECpower_ssj2008. Yes, you read the right. It “doesn’t so much roll off the tongue as ooze — but what’s in a name, anyway?” Ted Samson poses in this SustainableIT entry. Well, in this name is SPEC’s (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation), umm, spec for measuring servers’ power performance. Such a benchmark, thus far, has proven elusive, he adds. “Plenty of smart people have been trying to devise one, and at first blush, it may seem like a deceptively simple task.” Alas, it’s not quite so cut and dry. Related: Climate Savers green catalog proves unripe. Reader voices: I’m a mom who hasn’t approved of my college age kids downloading music for free but I’ve also watched as they sampled dozens of songs just to hear them when they’d never have bought them or even known they existed before the Internet … I’ve tried to take the moral high road here and now the RIAA tells me I’m a criminal just for putting my purchased Garth Brooks CD on my ipod?? Me? Us moms were purchased music’s best advocate but this has gone too far. If the RIAA wants a war then I’m jumping in the trenches with my kids and refusing to buy any more CD’s. An InfoWorld reader comments in response to Robert X. Cringely’s I’m so bo-o-o-red with the RIAA (but what can I do?). Software Development