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Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1 release candidate
SECURITY HOLE SPECIALIST Microsoft has announced that a release candidate (RC) for Windows 7 service pack 1 (SP1) is available.
Along with the Windows 7 SP1 RC the firm has announced an SP1 RC for Windows Server 2008 Release 2. While the availability of SP1 has in the past been considered the milestone for users to adopt a new version of Windows, Microsoft has always maintained that Windows 7 SP1 is little more than a round-up of pre-existing patches, with no new functionality.
Microsoft announced that the SP1 RC public beta release will be the last before the patchfest goes into 'release to manufacturing' (RTM) status. The Vole is hoping that a prolonged, public test period will help it iron out any flaws.
Microsoft has always played down the importance of Windows 7 SP1 in the hope that anticipation of its future arrival wouldn't put customers off upgrading sooner. Earlier this week, Microsoft quit offering its popular Windows XP operating system to system builders, meaning that users have to make a Hobson's choice between Windows Vista or Windows 7 if they want to run with Microsoft.
Even the most faithful Windows systems administrator would find loading an RC of a service pack onto a production server too great a risk, however this does give them access to test drive technologies such as Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX on test kit.
There are x86 and x64 versions of Windows 7 SP1 RC with the 64-bit version clocking in at over 860MB, 350MB more than the 32-bit edition.
Given that the Vole is claiming that Windows 7 SP1 is merely a collection of patches, the filesize tends to suggest that Windows 7 might not have been as bulletproof as the firm would like us to believe. µ
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It seems they're delaying the release so they could support next gen cpus and instruction sets (AVX, XOP, etc.) out of the box.
Sometime I think that Microsoft deliberately puts bugs into their OS because of some of your reasons.Or deliberately just leaves them their. But I kind of doubt it.
The USB digital audio in Windows 7 is not working correctly, and Microsoft has said that it won't be fixed until Windows 8.
Why couldn't Microsoft fix the bug in Windows 7 SP1, instead of requiring its customers to buy still another version of Windows to fix the bug Microsoft created?
Nah, the size of the service pack doesn't really tell you anything about the number and importance of the bugs fixed. If I write a 10MB .exe file and then I make a change to it to use green font instead of blue font in the About box, the service pack will have 10MB. Does it solve a lot of bugs? No, just one. Is it important, at least? Probably not.
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