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Windows 7 Not Getting A Second Service Pack

Posted by Unknown on from the mark-shuttleworth-becomes-filthy-rich dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Windows 7 was expected to have Service Pack 2 issued roughly 3 years from its introduction (late 2009). People, including myself, have been asking 'Where is it?' and the answer apparently is, 'It isn't, and will never be' which lends itself to the giant pain of installing Windows 7, then Service Pack 1, and hundreds of smaller hotfix patches. Why Microsoft? No go to Service Pack 2 for Windows 7!"

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  1. to continue the trend? by ctk76 · · Score: 5, Funny

    NT4 - 6 2000 - 4 XP - 3 Vista - 2 7 - 1 8 - 0???

    1. Re:to continue the trend? by JamesTRexx · · Score: 5, Funny

      Year of the Linux desktop! :-D

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  2. Re:Why? by zlives · · Score: 4, Funny

    perhaps if they actually developed beautiful code in the first place... unless you mistyped bloated...

  3. Re:patches on patches by lennier · · Score: 4, Funny

    Windows isn't distributed as individual packages from desperate sources

    And that's Linux's secret edge. Its developers are outlaws, lean and dangerous. We could do anything, anytime. We could fork your OpenOffice.org and call it LibreOffice... and then fork it right back. We could switch your default filesystem to btrfs, stone cold. We could drop X11 and replace it with Wayland... just like that.

    Don't push us, man.

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