Thursday, October 25th 2012
No Service Pack 2 for Windows 7: Report
Microsoft has no plans to release a new service pack (SP) for Windows 7. Sources at Microsoft's engineering team told The Register that breaking precedent (of releasing a new SP every 2 or so years), Microsoft will not release SP2 (service pack 2) for the operating system. Apart from being a collection of important software updates over a period, a service pack allows Microsoft to introduce major updates to key components of the operating system, such as its kernel. Apparently, Microsoft's Windows team is too busy with Windows 8, and it is observed that by choosing to not release an SP, Microsoft could be pushing users to its newer OS. Instead of newer SPs for Windows 7, Microsoft will release timely updates for Windows 7 SP1 over Windows Update, till the operating system's support lifetime runs out (that's January 2020).
Source:
The Register
98 Comments on No Service Pack 2 for Windows 7: Report
Not happy about the Win-8 in the cloud, less privacy and more of pay-as-you go. More to bleed the end-user dry. Win-8 will be more like driving toll roads than a freeway.
We have a word here, "If is not broken, why need fixing?". As a previews link was posted before, all updates until now can be downloaded in an .iso file from MS website. Besides, why do you need a new SP? Maybe one will be release later that will remove the start button and add the Metro interface...Happy? :))
doesn't bother me
As long as the maintain it and keep make the fixes that need to be made, I don't see a problem.
Probably just trying to scare people into moving to 8.
Service packs made it easy to make new more upto date install discs/usbs. Having to pick apart an update disc is inconvenient.
Yeah, downloading 3.3GB sucks, but it is a lot better than sitting there and downloading 100 patches every time you re-install. Plus you get all the Vista and XP patches, which saves me so much time when I'm repairing computers at work.Except it makes no sense. They aren't stopping support of Win 7, and it isn't going to negatively effect performance. So his argument has no valid points.
Sure, it might make misinformed people think they have to switch, but those of us with a little knowledge know that simply isn't true.
New computers will have it pre-installed. That's all that Microsoft needs to do.
They can't shut down updates to Win 7, because now, all their corporate customers with millions of clients and servers running Server 2003 and Win XP will be moving up to Server 2008 and Win 7 (if they haven't already). Updates till 2020; if there's no significant update to the Windows operating system, after Win 8, Win 7 will probably have its update cutoff extended, because those corporate customers won't jump to a newer version of the kernel unless there's a significant reason to do so. If that happens, there will be a SP2, at some point.
I probably wont get W8 till SP1 appears unless if 9 shows up
Yeah they seem to have forgotten that you can slipstream kb articles to the main DVD....
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Yes just find a good solid ISO and use the box key you already have...Just make sure the hash numbers match mine and the name of the iso....
WilE
They just do not have the man power,It is a recession after all,You think Mr.Gates wants to take a hit in his lifestyle? (just imagine his $8.5 million dollar house property tax.....)And Windows8 is a new hardware/driver support under neath the so called just Win7 that some of them think it is,why else would they have = performance in August and yet AMD claims speed of 25% boost with 12.11beta.They were working on Win7 and Win8.It hurt both OS for the last 6 months.
I would love to see them put a similar dvd out just for Windows7....BUT that will cost more money. And for DX11.1 you guys would be or are lucky enough just to get IE10 you know.