Report: Windows 7 SP1 Release Pushed to Q4'10
Waiting for SP1 before jumping to Windows 7? It could still happen this year.
Now that Windows 7 has settled in inside consumer homes after the considerable marketing push from retail, attention is turning to Microsoft's next step in development – the first Service Pack.
Just to be extra safe, many IT professionals prefer to wait until at least the first Service Pack for a Windows version before implementing a new version of the OS into their departments. The reason is that the first massive wave of users will already have hit the OS to clear out any possible bugs and compatibility issues.
According to source of TechARP, Microsoft initially planned a 22-month development period for Windows 7 SP1 but is now looking to bump that up to a release sometime within 2010.
We've heard from various other sources that the updated target for SP1 is sometime this summer or fall, the TechARP's sources point to the last (presumably calendar) quarter of 2010. Such a release would put Windows 7's first service pack on a similar RTM-to-SP1 schedule that Windows XP and Windows Vista had.
While Microsoft hasn't detailed exactly what SP1 will bring, many expect it just to be a massive collection of the incremental patches and updates that are already presently available from Windows Update.
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If this was an Apple service pack there would be 140 posts in the first ten seconds. Maybe Apple is the only 'in' company at this time with people being smug or is it that people are tired and have nothing to say regarding MS.
If this was an Apple service pack there would be 140 posts in the first ten seconds. Maybe Apple is the only 'in' company at this time with people being smug or is it that people are tired and have nothing to say regarding MS.
Or maybe for the first time in MS history they've released a product that actually works out of the blocks - SP1 isn't so critical this time around it seems, and as a result there's not a lot to say.
or maybe its becasue microsoft products are so useless that we dont expect anything good from them
and the only reason we use it is because we have to in the fact that most games and programs only support microsoft's operating system
The TechARP article is dodgy. MS never stated that there would be a 22 month wait for SP1. Q4 2010 was always the target date, i.e. one year after the initial release of Windows 7.
Either way, it's a big hoo-hah about nothing.
I'm sorry but they are constantly needing to patch their operating systems, including 7--it's bloody painful. So they could probably delay or bring forward as they like and give those hanging back on deploying, just to be prudent, what they believe they need... Yep, I suspect it more a marketing reason than a real need in light of the constant Windows Update process... Other than chewing more resources, really it doesn't help me get my work done any faster...it's just a different color car with a new interior. dare I say seat covers hiding Vista...