Windows 7 Service Pack 1 soon to break cover?

Geoff Spick
06 January 2010, 8:16 AM


Windows 7 may barely be settled-in on your hard disk drive but, already, Microsoft coders are beavering away at a major update.


A keen-eyed Windows blogger has spotted a new registry key buried deep within Windows 7 that will allow installation of a new update, namely Service Pack 1. Now, we're not suggesting this will be ready for home consumption, if fact we'd give it another ten months to coincide with the product's anniversary before it is officially released. 

Still, the key will allow external testers to install W7SP1 and, given the amount of public testing that happened with the core product, we reckon we'll be allowed to play with it long before the official release. The big question is what will the pack contain, apart from the usual existing updates and fixes that is? Some screen shots are already lurking in the darker corners of the Internet alongside some bizarre YouTube videos from last year, but show nothing surprising and Microsoft isn't talking.

Let us know what you'd like to see in Service Pack 1 and keep your eyes open and wait to play the 2010 version of the slowly-increasing-release-candidate-number-download-game.



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 x  (New user):

WOW! AMAZING! PUT ME RIGHT ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT.

And a nobel prize for this blogger I demand.

06 January 2010, 3:45 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

todd_h86 (New user):

W7 SP1 will be released with the Windows 2008 Server R2 SP2 as they are the same patch, and essentially they will be released around a year after the products were, so around October if not earlier!

06 January 2010, 4:54 PM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

osama (New user):

dear frindes
what antivures program shwo to windows 7
pleas tell me about that
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osama gomiel

15 January 2010, 8:22 AM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

Bug Bear (New user):

Wrong area - moved to "XP apps not happy on Windows 7"

23 February 2010, 10:58 AM (3 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend reply

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