Windows 7 SP1 due this year
The first Service Pack for Windows 7 could be due earlier than expected - possibly before the end of the year.
According to unnamed sources quoted over on Tech ARP - a site which has been previously accurately predicted the release dates of patches and service packs for Microsoft products - the original twenty-two month development cycle Microsoft had planned for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 has been trimmed following the discovery of several bugs in the operating system which can degrade performance.
While most of the major bugs have been fixed - and the rest have patches currently running the gamut of testing prior to general availability - Microsoft is apparently keen to make the Windows 7 experience as pleasant as possible for its customers, and will be rolling the updates into the operating system's first Service Pack for release in the last quarter of 2010.
The move will be of particular interest to business users: many corporations eschew new versions of the Windows operating system until the release of the first Service Pack, in order to allow third parties to discover the bugs and iron out the wrinkles prior to an expensive large-scale deployment. With sales figures for Microsoft's latest operating system already through the roof, the launch of SP1 could very well boost the company's coffers considerably.
Thus far, Microsoft hasn't confirmed or denied the rumoured launch date.
Are you pleased to see Microsoft hurrying along the first bundle of fixes, or are you saddened at the fact that the company has found enough bugs in its latest Windows release to justify speeding the development cycle? Share your thoughts over in the forums.
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Discuss in the forums Replyback on story, im just hoping they can iron out the networking issues (path routing,network discoveries, domain controllers, etc.) so i can run it in my office.
thus i agree. with SP1 coming out, theres a big chance M$ will be reaping some extra loads of $$ due to business interests.
or buy a new one :)
plus a router is just a router and will work with any OS, unless its one of those apple ones.
Well the router might be supported but the NIC is a different story - I've only got drivers up to Vista for my 3Com card. Thankfully W7 did support the integrated NIC on my mobo so that's the only reason it works and I'm online with it now.
Routers don't need drivers... so the operating system will not make a difference. What you're talking about is the drivers for the wireless card which are causing issues. In my experience i have had more problems with windows vista drivers and xp drivers for wireless than I'd care to remember. So far I have not seen a single problem with wireless drivers on 7 and i've even tested some pretty old wireless cards on 64-bit 7 which have no actual 7 support and limited support for vista (32-bit). They were even flaky on XP but again no issues on 7.
If your NIC has Vista drivers chances are they'll install and work with 7, have you tried?
I have no issues with a quick SP1 for 7. I think the OS is much more stable than any previous OS prior to their SP1's. The early release should represent that. Though I wouldn't want them to rush anything out without fully testing it first as that will have the opposite effect on users.
what you need is just go down to the shop buy a wireless lan usb adapter (the thing that sends and resives signels from router)
you can get a good one for under £20 and win7 supports most with its own drivers
anyway i think that it will be good when m$ release service pack 1 for win7, hopefully it will be released before september (so i can get it on student offer (ultimate for £50))
i've certainly seen some issues such as BlackSOD, and my technique for snap still needs some work (lol), but i would say W7 is a big win for M$, so credit where it is due.
so not bothered about SP1, as i don't have any issues with it!
its not so much that im botherd about sp1 its just when it gets to the point you get to every year or two it is nice to do a bit of spring cleaning with a fresh install and the service packs make this so much quicker
if i'm clicking right arrow to browse through the photos, suddenly the command will jump from the "next" command to the top buttons that say FILE, PRINT, EDIT, etc. it is very annoying and I have experienced it since the pre-beta stage...
The difference was, in XP the driver was native by SP2/3, in Vista the same driver when accessed from the installation disc still worked and then IIRC that was updated in SP2. Trying both for Win7 didn't work, the integrated NIC did, so I moved on and embraced the integration because it just works as well for doing the same job - given that I don't believe in wireless, too much hassle.
I'm struggling to think what would require a SP1 for Win 7 on the 64-Bit side of things, but I did upgrade to it after the Black/Grey Screen of Death was sorted out.
I think that hell will freeze over before that happens, just in case I should be right, here some usb powered gloves:D
Anyway, I know that there have been rumors of sp4 for years, but why would they do it? MS doesn't have any interest in Companies delaying upgrading to a new OS any further and most netbooks can run Windows 7.
Routers don't need drivers no, however the OS can make a difference, though problems manifest themselves more with wireless, and with cheaper routers.
When XP SP3 was released things stopped working. same for vista. I've not yet seen it in 7 (assuming that's down to the similarities to vista).
I've also seen a lot of driver issues. But take this one router firmware release notes as an example:
why not just turn it off?
bad first comment (must be talking about wireless device drivers), the only router i have had problems with was an ADSL edimax router and SP3 for XP as it would make the DHCP Crash on them and then the router would auto reboot (no sp3, router worked fine or set the SP3 pc to static IP work fine as well) but an update was made for them to fix it
@azrael-
think its more auto refresh, i like it for the most part as it saves me having tp press reload when i have unpacked files, just sort it using crated date not modified
can you turn auto refresh off not really checked
Back when Vista had just realsied I was working part time for a market research company (Taylor Nelson Sofres) I think is from the UK? Anyway, we questioned many businesses in Asia and many didn't upgrade to Vista because of the many problems it had. Of course that's Asia but I think it's the same story for most companies in other countries.
dont say that casue it emplies that it will soon get the best possible and then die or get considerably worse
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i did read an article about desktops being replaced by smartphones on yahoo.com...... Then again who would really want a
iPadiFail over i7-980X FTW!this might work for win 7.. regedit fix (for vista)