Rumors Of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Abound

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The news of the release of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 is everywhere, yet no one really knows when it will occur.

There have been a couple of things in the past month or so which, when linked to the stuff released in the last couple of days makes many think that the time is nigh.

In an article on Neowin, there is a claim that a Microsoft employee leaked the release date as tomorrow, but since that would be a weekend, it is hardly likely. The only thing that gives some amount of credence to the claim is that the build number agrees with one given by another independent source, one which has been correct about these types of releases in the past.

While the rumors are there in abundance, the news of the very things the enlivened multitudes should be concerned with is missing. It is what is addressed in this Service Package that should be the point of all the brouhaha.

If the Windows 7 users have been keeping up with the monthly updates, there may be nothing to see here, save for the fact that when the About banner is shown, it will read Windows 7 Service Package 1. Nice, but not terribly earth shattering.

There are a few things in my copies of Windows 7 that remain unaddressed, and it certainly would be nice to know if they will be soon, or if it will be necessary to start squeaking about them ( like the wheel that finally gets grease! ) again.

Why it is that, over the years, it has been the way of Microsoft to hide the changes until release is known only to them, and with most of the people that were with the company at the start now gone, it’s doubtful we will ever know.

If, however, you are looking forward to upgrading your Windows 2008 Server R2 to Service Pack 1 status, there is news for you, as for the business community, they have always given some of the new features away before the release -

Along with various bug fixes, Service Pack 1 will bring dynamic memory support to Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2, allowing administrators to pool all memory available on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to virtual machines running on that host as needed. RemoteFX will add enhanced desktop virtualization aimed at giving remote users the same experience as those sitting at a workstation.

It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few days, and I’m certain there will be a number of people hitting the Microsoft servers hard tomorrow, simply to keep checking back in the small possibility that the very first weekend update is occurring.

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