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Microsoft releases Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs
PERENNIAL SOFTWARE PATCHER Microsoft has finally released Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Microsoft made the announcement on its Russian Technet website by virtue of an "About Windows" screen-grab showing Windows Server 2008 R2 running build 7601. It proceeded to confirm that the final SP1 build for Windows 7 will be 7601.17514.win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850 and that OEMs were in possession of the Vole's latest consolidated security and glitch update.
Although Microsoft's Technet posting claims SP1 will be released to end users today, the Vole usually releases major patches such as this on a Tuesday, leading Redmond watchers to think that the public download is a few days off at the earliest.
Microsoft divulged details of SP1 back in the summer of 2010, saying the patch would be little more than an aggregation of the security fixes, general updates and various other bug fixes it has released since Windows 7 hit the shelves. Windows Server 2008 R2 will receive a few new features such as RemoteFX, a remote desktop daemon, and updates to the HyperV hypervisor.
Back in October, Microsoft announced the availability of the SP1 release candidate, which weighed in at a hefty 860MB for the 64-bit version of Windows 7. Given that almost three months of Patch Tuesday updates have passed since that release, who knows what the size of the final SP1 release will be?
The Vole has taken the slow route with releasing SP1 for Windows 7 and played down its significance in order to encourage corporate users take the plunge and upgrade to Windows 7 sooner rather than later. For many that hasn't worked, so Microsoft has had to finally release it.
With the news that Microsoft has released the final build of Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs, a long and frustrating wait for those who already shelled out for Windows 7 seems to be coming to a close.
Update
The INQUIRER has a poll up for those who haven't already splashed out the cash for Windows 7, asking whether the Vole's release of Windows 7 SP1 will motivate you to upgrade. It's located near the bottom on the right-hand side of The INQUIRER's front page. µ
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That poll you refer to in the article is the worst kind of skewed rubbish ever thought of.
For a start you have preselected the linux option (option 5). No options should be preselected.
Next there isn't even an option to say: "I already use windows 7", so how can you expect to see how many people current use it compared to how many people are waiting for SP1?
Come on Inq I used to love your dry wit and comic writing, now its just biased MS and Apple hate constantly.
All the OS's have their place, I personally shudder to think what the world would be like if you got your way and we all had to suddenly change to linux. Everyone would be walking around scratching their heads wondering what the hell a command line is and exclaiming that their gui doesn't look like OSX or Windows.
Maybe you should try a bit of impartiality.
Ummm, HELLO? Can you people read? SP1 is simply a conglomerate of all the updates. If you already have all the current updates installed and in place, SP1 will do you no good, in fact it won't even come up on your Windows Updates.
You must be a closet XP or Apple fanatic to spew this kind of bias. Ok, just kidding about you being an Apple fanatic! Windows 7 is excellent in spite of that effing idiot, AKA Steve Balmer. Nobody I know has been waiting for SP1. I've been using W7 since the early betas and it has proven to be an outstanding successor to XP...er...um...Vista.
As a matter of fact, just this week I had to pop in my old hard drive with XP on it searching for some old files. Jeez...XP feels so freakin' antiquated!
My only semi-serious gripes with Windows 7 are with the User Account Control and Windows Media Player.
UAC still asks me EVERY TIME if I want to allow a certain program to make changes even after I set it to always run the program 'As Administrator'. C'mon M$, that's a little over the top!
Windows Media Player still won't play any but the most basic media formats right out of the box without adding media codecs, which can really scrog things if you're not careful. Also, audio and video options as well as user preferences are still almost non-existent. It's a good thing there are so many excellent alternative media players out there.
Other than these two minor gripes Windows 7 has been fantastic. I'm still hoping for a good all-around viable open source alternative will show up at some point. Until then, no worries.
@Deadly_NZ - I agree with you 100% and will create a drive image before installing SP1. I'll even wait a while before installing SP1 and let others beta test it first.
that this don't turn a nice running win 7 to Vista, I think i will snapshot my system first.. I don't want no brick
Yup, can't figure out the frustration either working in windows 7.
Clearly someone never went on a vista operating system.
'With the news that Microsoft has released the final build of Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs, a long and frustrating wait for those who already shelled out for Windows 7 seems to be coming to a close'
What frustrating wait is that then? I've used Win 7 since it came out and it's been the first Windows that DIDN'T require a service pack to get it up to scratch...
'With the news that Microsoft has released the final build of Windows 7 SP1 to OEMs, a long and frustrating wait for those who already shelled out for Windows 7 seems to be coming to a close'
What frustrating wait is that then? I've used Win 7 since it came out and it's been the first Windows that DIDN'T require a service pack to get it up to scratch...