Microsoft: Windows 7 SP1 to Contain "Only Minor Updates"
Microsoft: Windows 7 SP1 to Contain "Only Minor Updates"
Posted 03/19/2010 at 7:27am
| by Paul Lilly
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If you're holding out on upgrading to Windows 7 until the first Service Pack sees the light of day, you may want to reconsider. Windows 7 SP1 won't usher in huge, sweeping changes like some of the Service Packs we've seen for other Windows OSes, and instead will introduce small changes, Microsoft said.
"For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor updates, among which are previous updates that are already delivered through Windows Update," Brandon LeBlanc, a Windows Communications Manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. "SP1 for Windows 7 will, however, deliver an updated Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of RemoteFX introduced in the server-side with SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2."
LeBlanc went on to emphasize that Windows 7 is ready for commercial deployment now and that many industry experts recommend against waiting for SP1.
"So don't wait -- go ahead and deploy...you know you want to!," LeBlanc added.
Microsoft has not yet announced a beta or release timeline for SP1 for Windows 7.
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M-ManLA
March 20, 2010 at 10:20pm
I knew SP1 wasn't going to add a whole lot of changes. Windows 7 is good enough. Buy it already.
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neo1piv14
March 19, 2010 at 1:54pm
I think the "let's wait until the first service pack" mentality is a little backwards. Especially considering all the advance chances to view Windows 7 companies got. I was using Windows 7 since the day the public beta hit on my work computers, so when Windows 7 finally hit retail, we ordered enough copies for our entire IT dept that day. Maybe every company doesn't have that level of felixibility that we had, but it wasn't a tough upgrade, and I think IT departments are often more gunshy than they should be. After working IT for many years, I've found that client side upgrades like that aren't really all that catestrophic.
win7fanboi
March 22, 2010 at 8:02am
While I feel Win7 is "ready" for use. History has shown SP1 of any Win OS fixes major vulnerabilities. Granted security hasn't been an afterthought in case of Win7, but any IT admin worth his salt will wait before committing the company to a new OS. I think you are a little uninformed if you think they dread the "upgrade" compatibility as opposed to the security repercussions.
gendoikari1
March 19, 2010 at 1:07pm
I think its just Microsoft telling businesses "You wanted to wait until SP1 until implementing this version, so here you go!" Does pretty much nothing, just aimed at said businesses.
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