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Vincent Padois, head tutor at the Pierre and Marie Curie University who teaches robotics and is babysitting the Paris ICub, makes a demonstration with ICub robot, a ?hybrid embodied cognitive system for a humanoid robot" about 1 metre (3.2 feet) high, at the Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris September 4, 2009. Six versions of ICub exist in laboratories across Europe, where scientists are painstakingly tweaking its electronic brain to make it capable of learning, just like a human child and hoping it will learn how to adapt its behaviour to changing circumstances, offering new insights into the development of human consciousness. REUTERS/Philippe Wojazer

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    Microsoft releases Office update ahead of schedule

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    An undated screenshot of Microsoft Office 2007 Access business templates. Microsoft said on Tuesday that it released the first major update of its Office 2007 productivity software at least one month ahead of its projected target. REUTERS/Microsoft Corporation/Handout

    SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said on Tuesday that it released the first major update of its Office 2007 productivity software at least one month ahead of its projected target.

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    The world's largest software maker said Office 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will crash less, is easier to use and is more secure than the original program that was released to consumers in January.

    Microsoft had said it planned to release Office 2007 SP1 in early 2008, but the company finished updating the software sooner than it expected.

    "We're optimistic that with the shipment of SP1 we're removing any residual barriers that may have impeded deployment and that adoption will only accelerate," Reed Shaffner, Microsoft Office product manager, said on its Web site.

    Customers can download SP1 from here or request a CD here. Microsoft said it will send an automatic update for SP1 at a later date.

    (Reporting by Daisuke Wakabayashi; Editing by Brian Moss)
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