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[Shayla]

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Today, Microsoft is announcing Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Detailed information regarding SP1 will be released over the next several months; but today Windows Server 2008 R2 is announcing that SP1 will deliver two important new features that directly affect Microsoft’s desktop virtualization stack: Dynamic Memory and RemoteFX.

Dynamic memory is an enhancement to Hyper-V in R2 and allows IT administrators to pool all the memory available on a physical host and dynamically distribute it to virtual machines running on that host as necessary. That means based on changes in workload, your VMs will be able to receive new memory allocations without a service interruption. For a deeper look at Dynamic Memory check here.

RemoteFX is the latest addition to Microsoft’s desktop virtualization stack. Using this new feature in Windows Server 2008 R2, you’ll be able to deliver an even richer and more user-transparent desktop virtualization experience. RemoteFX functions independently of any graphics stack and supports any screen content, including rich content like Silverlight or Flash. Because it uses virtualized graphics resources, RemoteFX works on a wide array of target devices, which means you can deploy it over both thick and thin client hosts and a wide variety of network configurations. For some more information on RemoteFX check here.

For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor updates, among which are previous updates that are already delivered through Windows Update. SP1 for Windows 7 will, however, deliver an updated Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of RemoteFX introduced in the server-side with SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2.

Microsoft is not yet announcing a beta or release timeline for SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 today. Once SP1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 is released, the service pack will be delivered through Windows Update and be available on Microsoft Download Center for download as well.

Source : WindowsTeamBlog + MSFT TechNet

[Avi]

Talk about misleading thread titles...

[itzwolf]

And you got me all excited... The Windows 7 Service Pack really seems to be pointless... All currently released patches and a RDP update? Come on Microsoft!

[nik louch]

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The Windows 7 Service Pack really seems to be pointless... All currently released patches and a RDP update? Come on Microsoft!

EXACTLY what a service pack should contain. Not apps, not new major features.

[Ridlas]

Its basically to fool big business. Most people switch OS's when they release the first service pack.

[vladmphoto]

Well now, come on people. Let's just step back and think about this for a second. So what we're saying here is that we WANT SP1 to contain lots of stuff and be jam-packed full of fixes. Well I don't know about you but the way I see it is that we're hoping that Windows 7 has many many bugs so that SP1 can have a purpose.....That's like wishing you'd get cancer just so that hospitals can have a chance to give you doses of chemotherapy and radiation..... I've been a tester for windows since windows xp and so far the Windows 7 testing experience had been quite a boring one because I had only submitted one major bug report among other pretty minor bugs. With Vista I had 92......In any case, I think Microsoft may have written themselves a pretty easy life-cycle with Windows 7. We'll see in the coming months when we'll have more details about SP1.

[Luis Mazza]

ManOfMystery, on 18 March 2010 - 17:27, said:

Well now, come on people. Let's just step back and think about this for a second. So what we're saying here is that we WANT SP1 to contain lots of stuff and be jam-packed full of fixes. Well I don't know about you but the way I see it is that we're hoping that Windows 7 has many many bugs so that SP1 can have a purpose.....That's like wishing you'd get cancer just so that hospitals can have a chance to give you doses of chemotherapy and radiation..... I've been a tester for windows since windows xp and so far the Windows 7 testing experience had been quite a boring one because I had only submitted one major bug report among other pretty minor bugs. With Vista I had 92......In any case, I think Microsoft may have written themselves a pretty easy life-cycle with Windows 7. We'll see in the coming months when we'll have more details about SP1.

Geeks just love fixing, even if it doesn't need to be fixed...

[itzwolf]

Luis Mazza, on 18 March 2010 - 17:31, said:

Geeks just love fixing, even if it doesn't need to be fixed...

My point exactly

[+ViperAFK]

itzwolf, on 18 March 2010 - 17:19, said:

And you got me all excited... The Windows 7 Service Pack really seems to be pointless... All currently released patches and a RDP update? Come on Microsoft!

Well win7 is already a very stable OS. Not much else it needs for sp if it needs one at all.

[xpclient]

I just wish future service packs (SP2 when it arrives and later) for Windows 7 are all cumulative and Windows 8 service packs are slipstreamable again.

[facepalm]

Who cares?

It's Microsoft saying 'We sold you buggy software, and we're fixing it with SP1' so, well - great! Hooray?!!

[.Vamp]

facepalm, on 19 March 2010 - 06:56, said:

Who cares?

It's Microsoft saying 'We sold you buggy software, and we're fixing it with SP1' so, well - great! Hooray?!!

Except they didn't as Win7 was very stable from release. Every OS has updates and patches/fixes released as the enviroment around them changes and they have to adapt to new threats and compatability issues (and also fixing existing ones too - nothing's perfect).

[ilev]

ManOfMystery, on 18 March 2010 - 17:27, said:

Well now, come on people. Let's just step back and think about this for a second. So what we're saying here is that we WANT SP1 to contain lots of stuff and be jam-packed full of fixes. Well I don't know about you but the way I see it is that we're hoping that Windows 7 has many many bugs so that SP1 can have a purpose.....That's like wishing you'd get cancer just so that hospitals can have a chance to give you doses of chemotherapy and radiation..... I've been a tester for windows since windows xp and so far the Windows 7 testing experience had been quite a boring one because I had only submitted one major bug report among other pretty minor bugs. With Vista I had 92......In any case, I think Microsoft may have written themselves a pretty easy life-cycle with Windows 7. We'll see in the coming months when we'll have more details about SP1.

I don't know how you test win7 but until now there are more than 500 bug fixes , security fixes and hot fixes . Only some of the fixes were updated on users clients PCs (these fixes were sent to OEMs only)

[Kirkburn]

ilev, on 19 March 2010 - 08:25, said:

I don't know how you test win7 but until now there are more than 500 bug fixes , security fixes and hot fixes . Only some of the fixes were updated on users clients PCs (these fixes were sent to OEMs only)

Sure you're not including general updates in that, and stuff not directly related to Win7? (e.g. daylight savings updates, IE8 updates). Link please.

I'm not disputing that there might be 500 individual things for Win7 so far, but I think you're attempting to extrapolate too much out of it in order to paint Win7 in a bad light.

[hdood]

"General updates?" An update that applies to 7 is an update that applies to 7. Heck, even an IE8 update is a 7 update, because it's an OS component.

There have been hundreds released publicly for 7, plus a bunch that haven't. Generally only fixes for major vulnerabilities make it to Windows Update.

I don't see how this "paints Win 7 in a bad light." It is arguably the most complex software product out there. Of course it's going to have bugs. Of course Microsoft are going to fix them. Of course they're going to combine the updates into a Service Pack at some point. Of course it's rational for businesses to wait until SP1 to make sure the initial problems have been worked out. What's the big deal? I don't even see anything to "defend" here. Only people who believe Windows is some sort of infallible deity would even consider this noteworthy.