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What To Expect From Windows 7 SP1

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-i-thought-it-was-perfect dept.

snydeq writes "The first inklings of a public Windows 7 SP1 beta program are beginning to emerge, with hidden registry keys and a leaked list of post-RTM build numbers surfacing on the Web. 'Beyond the obvious bug fixes and security patches, we'll no doubt see support for the new USB 3.0 standard. Likewise, enhancements to the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi stacks will be slipstreamed in, allowing Windows 7 to retain its mantle as the most easily configured version ever,' writes InfoWorld's Randall Kennedy. 'But perhaps the most significant "update" to come out of Service Pack 1 will be the fact that it exists at all, and that by delivering it to market Microsoft will be signaling that it is now OK for IT shops to pull the trigger on their Windows 7 deployments.'"

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  1. Re:Easiest Network config? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm assuming that Shaman is either trolling or (rather more likely) is trying to do something that isn't "1 NIC, DHCP, default firewall rules, no ICS, etc.)

    If you are in an environment where that is all you need, I'd be hard pressed to think of an OS that wouldn't Just Work. Even the more notoriously hostile Linux and BSD distros with text-based installers and a hatred of all things autoconf will typically at least offer to write the config file needed to bring eth0 up with DHCP on boot.

    You start to see the differences in configurability when you need to do something modestly unusual or complex.

  2. Re:Cue the morons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I present to you for your reading pleasure right from the horses mouth.

    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/mojave-experiment/ Seems they have changed it since the last time I looked.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojave_Experiment

    What did they learn? People really do not care what it was called just dont call it vista. They even tested it on a group of people.

    http://www.whibb.com/win-7-windows-vista-difference.html

    The real differences between vista and 7 are fairly 'minor' usability changes. 'faster' should have been in a service pack (oh sp2-sp3)... The under the hood stuff was not really that compelling to warrant a full version change. It is a rebrand to make people think 'oh they fixed a bunch of things'. When the reality is they made all the hard changes in vista. Vista was miserable because of those changes. They had 4 years to fix all of that in the driver stacks... Which is why 7 is firing on all cylinders...

    You look at the benchmarks coming out and they are pretty much the same between vista and 7.

    Call me a moron if you will. But I see a marketing ploy that is working pretty good.