Topic: Windows 7 - Service Pack 1 (download)

[Samker]

Windows 7 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level. It also provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback. This enables organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will help you:

   - Keep your PCs supported and up-to-date

   - Get ongoing updates to the Windows 7 platform

   - Easily deploy cumulative updates at a single time

   - Meet your users' demands for greater business mobility

   - Provide a comprehensive set of virtualization innovations

   - Provide an easier Service Pack deployment model for better IT efficiency


Download: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&displaylang=en

(NW)

[duomaxwell22]

nice, thanks for the update..

[hazedaze]

I wondered if this would happen given what the other IT website was saying about MS dumping there schedule.

I think there slowy starting to realise that they are way too slow out of the starting blocks these days comparaed to other software vendors which should be hugely embarising for such a huge company as MS.

I wonder if they will take the same semi-proactive approach to the Xbox game-ing side of things given there being left behind big time now by the PS3!! Dont bother with Natel till the next Xbox MS...Nuff said!! : )

[fotis100]

very nice, thank for the update

[mercenary]

Great thanks for the post!

[Fintech]

Hello,

I think that however I wait yet full publication! I have two versions from Windows7, Pro x86 and  Home Premium x64, later is for me in my portable computer!

Thanx anyway from your announcement 

[Samker]

Latest info's about official SP1:

... assumption that "we're" relatively close to official release of SP1 is wrong, with a post from the Windows Team Blog saying that "Windows 7 SP1 will be available in the first half of 2011 through the usual channels." Brandon LeBlanc, Windows Communications Manager on the Windows Client Communications Team said that "For Windows 7, SP1 is simply a combination of updates already available through Windows Update  and additional hotfixes based on feedback by our customers and partners."

Brandon reiterates that "Business customers tell us that they are already seeing the benefit of deploying Windows 7, and industry analysts agree that there is no need to wait for SP1" and trumpeted that this month, "Windows 7 [has] nearly 14% share of the global OS market."

SP1 only contains two major new features, which will not affect the majority of users. The first of the two is RemoteFX, a standalone product that requires Windows Server 2008 R2 to be used. RemoteFX allows users to watch high-quality video and interact with 3D applications over a remote desktop session -- this will change the way Virtual Machines are used, as they have had limited display capabilities until now.

The second feature is an update for HyperV in Windows Server 2008 R2 called "Direct Memory". The feature is as simple as it sounds -- it dynamically allocates memory to virtual machines as required and is able to remove memory from virtual machines when others need higher resources.
(NW)

More: http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2010/07/12/public-beta-now-available-for-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-service-pack-1.aspx

[Fintech]

It's not so far that final release! I'm gonna still wait for it!

[Samker]

It's not so far that final release! I'm gonna still wait for it!

If you have enabled Automatic Updates, you already have all important Hotfixes from SP1 etc.

[Fintech]

Yes I have on automatic update on but only load them on my behalf but do not install those!
I check and install them manually