Microsoft Announces Windows 7 SP1

CWmike writes "Microsoft has announced service packs for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users' hands. A company spokesman said Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will primarily contain 'minor updates,' including patches and hotfixes that will have been delivered earlier via the Windows Update service, rather than new features. One of the latter: an updated Remote Desktop client designed to work with RemoteFX, the new remote-access platform set to debut in SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2. Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be upgraded to SP1, Microsoft said, presumably at the same time as Windows 7 since the two operating systems share a single code base. Besides RemoteFX — which Microsoft explained Wednesday in an entry on the Windows virtualization team's blog — Server 2008 R2 will also include a feature dubbed 'Dynamic Memory,' which lets IT staff adjust guest virtual machines' memory on the fly. Microsoft did not spell out a timetable for the service packs, saying only that it would provide more information as release milestones approach."

Comments

Re:Martin-boundary Announces Windows 7 SP2

[aurelianito]

I think you accidentally all your drugs.

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Re:What's With the Windows icon??!

[Grapes4Buddha]

When Fox News changes their slogan to "Propaganda for conservative wing-nuts, stuff to mess with Liberals' minds", maybe we'll stop bashing them so much.

Maybe.

Re:Martin-boundary Announces Windows 7 SP2

[rts008]

Joke?
Where?

Keep your day job,as comedy seems to escape you.

Re:The wise user will wait

[Zarel]

• PowerShell was introduced in 2009, 9 years after Windows 2000 and 8 years after OS X.
• The web browser is bundled with the operating system, which is really close enough.
• I am talking about operating system support, since the point is to compare the relative merits of the operating systems. "Free alternatives" doesn't mean much in this context, since they 1. aren't made by the OS vendor, 2. aren't supported by the OS vendor, 3. often have ads, and 4. have to be found and vetted by the user, a process which takes time.
• OS X's Dock is the equivalent of the Windows taskbar (and it can be rearranged).
• By "indexed search" I mean the realtime search in Windows Vista and OS X's Spotlight.
• Exactly, running as a limited user "wasn't the default", and was in fact practically impossible to do in Windows's software climate.
• I don't think any of the things I've mentioned were available as a free download from Microsoft at the time of Windows 2000's release. And as for availability right now, all I can think of is the virtual desktops PowerToy for XP (an extremely buggy implementation).

My examples chosen are valid examples, and you've only tried to disprove a few of them (and I've refuted practically all of your tries), and you admit Windows's inferiority in several places ("Microsoft has chosen to make this very complicated", "you must save in a different format").

So sure, Windows has "enterprise features" on OS X. But what about stability? Ease of use? Appearance? Virus resistance? You know how whenever Slashdot runs an article talking about whatever new Windows Vista feature, there were always those Linux users who joked "Welcome to 2001"? In general, OS X had those features well before Windows, as well.