[WZOR] New Windows 7 Build 7662 (SP1) Beta ?


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Since the end of September 2009, Microsoft has resumed intensive work on the first service pack for Windows 7, the assembly gathered, the work in full swing, we observe the processes taking place in a company and as soon as work on SP1 significantly advance to the "interesting stages, so we just try to give you know about this.

Now we will not "spook" the leadership and development team, leak test assemblies SP1 Beta 1.

To our knowledge the first Beta 1 version of SP1 for Windows 7 may appear at the end of December this year, just before the Christmas holidays, and after the new year, SP1 Beta 1 will be given to the TAP Testori.

The public phase of testing SP1 for Windows 7 will begin in early January 2010.

Total scheduled to launch two beta versions of SP1 for Windows 7 and two release candidates.

Output the final version of SP1 for Windows 7 is scheduled for the autumn of 2010, PC makers will get the updated distributions of Windows 7 with SP1 as always much earlier ie in the summer of 2010.

This update is a beta of service pack 1

They just released the OS :s. Wouldn't they wait a bit longer to collect more feedback and bug reports from businesses and consumers before starting on the Service packs? Perhaps they're just fixing up the fixes that software developers are submitting to them.

People say that they think this is too early for them to be working towards SP1? But Microsoft are already working on Windows 8 and making their plans for Windows 9...?

It is not that we think it is too early to start working for SP1, rather just too early to even reach a beta milestone for SP1 without waiting for some post-launch feedback. From what I have been reading about MS, they probably will be releasing SP1 sometime next summer, which puts it just one year after they RTM'd Windows 7. Basically all their release times are accelerated now compared to how they used to do things prior to vista.

Although it *seems* too early, in order to understand why it's already being done, you have to understand a bit how Microsoft works on their software.

When there is a release, that particular version is something that could very well have been worked on for weeks if not months prior. They have several teams that work on their projects and although one particular team may have just finished working a project 3 days ago for instance, another team could very well have been working in the background for weeks before. That being said, when the information is fresh on a version (ie. A leak that's so up-to-date like this one), we're getting this information at the very beginning of a project. It could be months or even years before something is released. Just because they're working on it at this point in time, doesn't mean it's going to be released within the next few days or weeks.

I hope that helps at least someone understand how most software projects work :) If you already knew this, just ignore me ;)

Also as a side note: Windows 7 may have been released last week, but it's been RTM since July. So they would have begun sifting through more of the feedback as well as started work on any bugs from that point in time. The non-major ones would be set aside for a service pack. So in reality, this isn't nearly as early as it seems.

I wouldn't say it's early. Remember that even before it RTM'd, MS would have been aware of bugs that didn't warrant any delays with the RTM release but could be put aside to fix in a service pack. Also the product RTM'd way back in July, so since then the finished product has been out to various people (Tap/"Leaked"/GA/Release) so they've been collecting all sorts of data since then.

and yes, you'll always get companies who follow the "wait til SP1" mantra, so MS will be keen to get it out as soon as possible(within reason, a totally rushed release wouldn't really be "SP1") to alay that.

nevermind ....i forgot that windows 7 RTMed in july

Could those of you who aren't registered beta testers tell me why you would bother installing beta service packs?

to see if what you are suffering from got fixed ? squeezing extra performance? to fill your geeky nerdy inner soul lool !

Please those who care about improving the OS by SP1 instead of chanting the "Windows 7 is perfect" mantra, please request the features from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_featu...n_Windows_Vista and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_featu...ed_in_Windows_7 on their forums. Only if enough people complain they might fix some issues like no total size or free disk space on status bar in Explorer, ability to disable auto sort so your files don't get scattered and so on.

I agree that it seems a bit early for a Service Pack but then again, who knows?

Windows 7 was very likely released with known bugs in it, but where they weren't deemed serious enough to block the RTM. This is common in the software world. IIRC, they started the SP1 development branch even before Windows 7 went RTM. I mean, software with open development like Firefox or Google Chrome have hundreds of known bugs in their databases where fixing those is scheduled for future milestones.

Please those who care about improving the OS by SP1 instead of chanting the "Windows 7 is perfect" mantra, please request the features from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_featu...n_Windows_Vista and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_featu...ed_in_Windows_7 on their forums. Only if enough people complain they might fix some issues like no total size or free disk space on status bar in Explorer, ability to disable auto sort so your files don't get scattered and so on.

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USB3 support shall be nice in SP1 :) I hope that SP1 is slipstreamable and not just putting the .exe in the update folder on the dvd.

I have experienced quite a few bugs, especially when files are corrupt eg extracting from corrupt rars, it hangs the system for minutes on a quad core new pc, also windows start-up sound sometimes plays for me when i press the show desktop button which is very annoying.

Hopefully they might add more drivers built in and include nvidia drivers too as i don't think they did with the RTM build.

its been 4 months ish since RTM so its certainly possible for a beta of sp1 to be out before the end of the year. If only it came with IE9 :p .NET 4.0 would be good but can't see that happening either.

The earlier SP1 is out the better for them as most businesses won't upgrade until then.

USB3 support shall be nice in SP1 :) I hope that SP1 is slipstreamable and not just putting the .exe in the update folder on the dvd.

I have experienced quite a few bugs, especially when files are corrupt eg extracting from corrupt rars, it hangs the system for minutes on a quad core new pc, also windows start-up sound sometimes plays for me when i press the show desktop button which is very annoying.

Hopefully they might add more drivers built in and include nvidia drivers too as i don't think they did with the RTM build.

its been 4 months ish since RTM so its certainly possible for a beta of sp1 to be out before the end of the year. If only it came with IE9 :p .NET 4.0 would be good but can't see that happening either.

The earlier SP1 is out the better for them as most businesses won't upgrade until then.

USB3 wont be mass produced anytime soon , and it is just a driver no big deal

.NET 4 possibly but IE9 integrated can't see that happening

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