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Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

Summary: Microsoft has finished work on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and will begin pushing the update to systems on February 22nd via Windows Update.

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

By for Hardware 2.0 |

Microsoft has finished work on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and will begin pushing the update to systems on February 22nd via Windows Update.

Microsoft has today hit the RTM (Release to Manufacturing) stage for both Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and has started shipping the code to OEMs.

If you are a TechNet or MSDN subscriber you will be able to get your hands on the code from February 16th.

So what's new:

For Windows 7, SP1 will help keep your PCs well supported by delivering ongoing updates, many of which have been made previously available through Windows Update. It also includes client-side support for RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory which are two new virtualization features enabled in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Read more about those updates here from the Windows Server Team.

In my experimenting with the beta and leaked versions of SP1 for Windows 7, there's no new cool stuff to see, no UI tweaks and no performance boosts. This is primarily a bugfix release that brings together all the patches and updates released so far.

The virtualization features however, are compelling and should help to reduce the system load and increase virtualization density on servers. Good news all round.

Topics: CXO, Cloud, Hardware, Microsoft, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Virtualization, Windows

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  • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

    I'm ready and waiting. I'm going to tell everyone about this once its released just so they are up to date as well. Its awesome to just have a service pack instead of having reinstall your OS every 6 months when a new version is out.
    Loverock Davidson
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @Loverock Davidson
      If only what you say where true all would believe you.
      What a joke.
      daikon
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      • Huh?

        Looks like another Apple fanboy plant. Doesn't see it as the best OS in the world.
        BigJohnLg
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @Loverock Davidson Get a life loser
      Ron Burgundy
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @Loverock Davidson

      Me too, just making the World's best and most secure OS even better. No compile it from source messing about for us eh?
      Rubberduck Rabidson
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    • Not so fast...

      @Loverock Davidson

      SP1 is going to leave the telnet port wide open. I'm staying away from it.
      none none
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  • Woooooiiii. The next great version that will allow you to run (drum roll)

    LEGACY WIN32 APPLICATIONS. Time to party down.
    DonnieBoy
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @DonnieBoy

      I wish all you fanboyz ... LD included ... would just go away. You rarely bring anything but noise to a discussion and ruin things for folks without some ax to grind. Worse, your (not just you but all the fanboyz regardless of whose ox you are trying to gore ... MS, Apple, Linux) inane comments not only fail to convince anyone of your point of view, but actually seem to breed an ever increasing pool of your ilk.
      This will probably surprise you but some folks would actually like to gain pertinent information from reading ... not read a flock of pointless, childish banter between little minds.
      noagenda
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      • The point is that running legacy Win32 applications is not that important

        any more. Most people have moved on, witness the sales of iPad WITHOUT support for legacy Win32, selling 7.5 million the last 3 months. So, call us fan boys if you want, but, legacy Win32 is dying.
        DonnieBoy
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      • I don't think Donnieboy understands numbers

        or the fact that most of those iPad users also have a Windows computer. But, hey, let's say they don't. 7.5 million iPads out there against HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of people using those "legacy Win32 apps".
        Michael Alan Goff
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      • goff256: Yes, families will have to have one Windows computer in the corner

        for some time to come. But, they are buying millions of NEW devices that do not have legacy Win32, because they really do not need it. Sure, there is a large installed base of computers that run legacy Win32. So what?
        DonnieBoy
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      • Some programs that are Windows Programs that won't die soon

        -Microsoft Office
        -Visual Basic
        -Photoshop
        -Most games are Win32

        and on and on

        Get it?
        Michael Alan Goff
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @DonnieBoy
      It's Windows. You can already do that.
      Darkninja962
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      • Right, the point is, that the only redeeming feature of Windows 7 is that

        it runs legacy Win32 applications, and people are just not using them much anymore. If you do not run Win32 applications, Windows 7 is pretty much pointless. So, news of a Windows service pack, is like, well, who cares????
        DonnieBoy
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      • Donnie - clueless as usual..

        @DonnieBoy
        Really now. Windows in all it's recent flavors still dominates the market with somewhere between 90% and 95% of the computers out there. Sure. While there are SOME people out there who have bought an iPad or some other tablet, 90 - 95% of the market still uses Windows based systems. So who cares about Windows 7 SP1's arrival? Given the fact that Windows 7 is selling quite well, I'd have to say there are far more people out there who DO than those who use an iPad or Android tablet.

        Do you have a clue about the difference between 1 million and 1 billion? So there's like 7.5 million iPads and such out there. <yawn> There are over 1 billion Windows PCs out there. That's over 1000 million Windows PCs. iPad and such are a drop in the proverbial bucket. Relatively inconsequential. Irrelavant.
        Wolfie2K3
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @DonnieBoy How much poor can your reading comprehension skills get ? Its not a new version. Its a service pack. Who am I trying to explain ? Leave it ...
      1773
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      • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

        @MSPawar

        You're talking to a brick.
        The one and only, Cylon Centurion
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      • Guys, YES, MS calls it a service pack for marketing reasons, but, it is

        like a new minor version, you are splitting hairs. But, hey, really exciting being able to run legacy Win32. Wooooiiiii.
        DonnieBoy
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    • RE: Get ready for Windows 7 SP1 - Hits Windows Update on February 22nd

      @DonnieBoy

      Donnie, you really can't tell the difference between a real OS and a phone OS or the difference between an application and an app on a phone someone uses to while away the time.

      Oh and I'm using 64 bit apps anyway ;-)
      tonymcs@...
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      • Well, you do not understand what an OS is, so, this discussion will not

        go very far. But, iOS and Android are also REAL OSes, and are selling much better than Microsoft OSes in those categories.
        DonnieBoy
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