how long will they keep this outdated and wrong article going ? people keep reading it, so it end up at the right of the main page all the time but it's worthless ... It's a lame news, made by someone who didn't knew what he was talking about and just don't bother to rectify it.

I think I have read that it originated here at The Inquirer but it is interesting to note that the latin name for a vole is 'Microtus arvalis Pallas' so maybe the Microtus tranforms into Microsoft hence The Vole !

Sean

What's a vole?

You can bet that the BIGGEST change included in SP1 will be an update of WAT. I gaurantee it!

'Microsoft said that SP1 "will simply be the combination of updates already available through Windows Update and additional hotfixes"'.

So, for most of us who have kept up to date with patches, SP1 would have no effect? Or, to put it another way, it is only for those braindead enough to run Windows without patching it for many months on end?

I just hope we don't get screwups due to multiple application of the same patches, or failure by the SP software to work out the complicated relationships and decision trees that will arise.

Who uses this in a corporate environment anyway? XP is and always will be the standard that M$ fails to live up to in each release... On their way out, buh-bye.

nd @Bill:
I read that, but it's quoted above -- which doesn't appear on the link, and I didn't search for it. Just seems odd if an actual in-context quote. But okay, I made a feeble shot at Windows. Was a slow day.

(This page in particular gives me trouble. 2nd attempt to post.)

Dynamic Memory relates to the Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, that is being released at the same time as Windows-7 SP1.

From the link in the article.

Dynamic Memory: will enable Windows Server Hyper-V to dynamically allocate more or less memory to each VM as needed

From what I have read, the dynamic memory feature is used in the HyperV role to dynamically adjust the amount of memory allocated to a virtual machine as it is needed.

As a user with a number of HyperV servers and Virtual Servers this is a welcome addition.

Sean.

This Month Beta SP1 of -=7=- will be comin' Round (heMOUNTAIN). Heres snip:

final release is expected to hit both platforms sometime in Q4 2010, however it will not include any new features that are specific to Windows 7. So wait, yet how beta could SP1 be?

Toasters on Standby....

drashek

XP downgrade rights will disappear when SP1 is released to general market (when it ships with the COA sticker on the OEM box with 7 SP1 on it). Not a problem for a home user, a big problem for some corporate users.

Actually, you can glean it directly from the link this article provides.

Your commenting about this article. The word "beta" is not in it. Beta it may well be, but you can't glean that from what's written here.

Obviousley reading is an issue these days. It clearly says its releasing the public BETA, not final.

'which according to the firm allows users to "adjust memory usage without sacrificing performance." '

The only way this could be true is if doesn't have any effect. So it's either a toy to amuse tweakers, or the underlying system is so complex or lousy that the setting is irrelevant.

(And, going for the rarely attempted TRIPLE post after an apparent error...)