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It's a very important best practice to make sure that your operating system software and all of your line-of-business application software are up to date. Think of it this way: technology moves so quickly and hackers are constantly exploiting vulnerabilities and programming bugs in your applications. Therefore, if you're not periodically checking the vendor's website for product updates, bug fixes, feature enhancements and so forth, you're really opening up your computer to a world of hurt, let's say. So in this lesson I'd like to show you how we can update the Visio 2007 software. Well, the instructions here are going to depend a little bit upon your client operating system. If you're using Windows Vista, like I am, it's a pretty easy process. It's one of two ways, actually. One is to open your start menu and choose Windows Update. The version of Windows Update that comes with Vista will check any Microsoft applications by default. And I'm showing you the control panel Windows Update on my Vista box and you see that I've run a check for updates and I have some important updates that I need to install. We can click the hyperlink to view available updates to take a look at them in particular. It looks like I have a couple here. And, of course, I want to click install to install those. Another means of checking for updates is within an Office 2007 application. Of course, in this tutorial series, we're concerned with Visio 2007 and we have that up right now. At any point in time we can open the help menu and select check for updates. What that'll do, at least initially, is pop open your default web browser, which on my computer is Mozilla Firefox, and you see what it's telling us. Use your start menu to check for updates. Windows Update is now included in control panel. Well, that's great. So now we know how to make sure our Visio installation is up to date in Windows Vista. Well, what do we do in Windows XP Professional? There are certainly still a lot of folks still running that operating system in the world. Well, the bottom line is if you're using Microsoft update, which is the successor to Windows Update, you can easily tell if you have Microsoft Update installed by opening your start menu, in XP now, and seeing a Microsoft Update icon, as opposed to a Windows Update. Yes, the nomenclature is really fuzzy here. I understand. Alternatively, probably the easiest thing to do if you're on XP is to simply open up Microsoft Visio, just like we're doing here, opening the help menu and selecting check for updates. That's probably the path of least resistance, regardless of your client operating system. Some updates require a reboot, many don't. I would recommend that if the update program asks you for a reboot, you save all of your open documents and let the reboot complete. Always want to be safe.