Will Windows 7 ever see a Service Pack 2 update like XP got before Vista came out?

[FordGT90Concept]

Win2k8r2 sp1, not for 7 sp1.

Service Pack 1 for Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 are the same:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5842

windows6.1-KB976932-X64.exe - This application installs Sp1 to a 64-bit machine running Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2

Just like how Server 2008 service packs also apply to Windows Vista.


RemoteFX applies to both operating systems:

To use RemoteFX, the virtualization server must be running Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1, the virtual machine must be running Windows 7 Enterprise with SP1 or Windows 7 Ultimate with SP1, and the remote client computer must be running either Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1 or Windows 7 with SP1. To connect to the virtual machine, the remote client computer requires an updated version of Remote Desktop Services (included in the service pack for all editions of Windows 7).

Service packs are made because they include a major, new feature. This is why it is unlikely Windows 7 will see another service pack because they'll release new features to Windows 8/Server 2012.


Edit: Since XP SP3 keeps coming up, here's the new features in it:
-"Black Hole" Router Detection

-Network Access Protection (NAP) - A feature that was added to XP to take advatange of improvements in Server 2008.

-CredSSP Security Service Provider - Brings XP up to RDP 6.1 specification.

SP3 was mostly released because it became clear businesses weren't going to upgrade their computers to Vista so they allowed XP to function with Server 2008 to make Server 2008 more appealing to corporate customers.

 

[[XC] Oj101]

Same as I've always had..lol.. Sometimes firefox bluescreens on 1st load.. sometimes flash crashes and stalls, plays badly in general, runs waay to heavy on resources.. I swear I had better video performance on XP.. No joke..

It had better be a joke if you want to blame Windows for any of that

 

[Frick]

Re-read my post then. It was impleneted for Windows 2008 R2 not Windows 7. *le sigh*

As Ford said, it's the same thing really.

SP3 was mostly released because it became clear businesses weren't going to upgrade their computers to Vista so they allowed XP to function with Server 2008 to make Server 2008 more appealing to corporate customers.

I'm thinking it'll be the same thing with 7/8. We might well see a new SP for Vista for that matter, I can't see businesses will mass migrate to 8.

 

[FordGT90Concept]

I wouldn't be surprised if some feature revolving around Metro is implemented into Server 2012 that they would release service packs for Vista/7 for. For example, if they implemented a corporate pool of software on Server 2012 with site-licencsing, I wouldn't be surprised if there is some pseudo-Metro download for Vista/7 that allows access to that pool. If they did that, Metro would get corporate adaption much faster than they would otherwise.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Probably wont see Sp2 for win7 untill many months after Win8 release , if at all, but given the corporate world is just moveing to win7 and wont be jumping on the win8 bandwaggon, another SP for win7 does seem inevitable to me, all be it eventually and without the metro UI as an addin.

 

[newtekie1]

Personally, if they aren't going to release a SP2 for Win7 or SP3 for Vista because there aren't any significant changes they want to make or any new features they want to add, I'd at least like update rollup packages for Vista and Win7.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

Oh I do. The irony of the whole matter is it's hard for me to take someone with a username like yours seriously



That's relative and subjective to whether you have a sense of humor or not. We won't get into culture differences tho



I know. But I'm probably biased, too.



Emoticons do not substitute for a lack of a sense of humor - they are simply an intensifier (ie: smurf all of you smurfing smurfs) - nor do they alleviate one's own insecurities on said lack of humor. I could be reading too far on it, but I smurfing doubt it

come on bro! Nvidia and Intel are so 1337!!! :shadedshu

In all seriousness I see no reason for microsoft to release a service pack 2 for W7.

 

[GSquadron]

Actually there is SP3 on XP, so there will never be a SP2 on windows 7.

 

[Frick]

Actually there is SP3 on XP, so there will never be a SP2 on windows 7.

What do you mean?

 

[newtekie1]

In all seriousness I see no reason for microsoft to release a service pack 2 for W7.

Do the ~70 updates that have been released since SP1 totaling ~250MB over a 128Kbps satellite connection and then you will see a reason for Microsoft to release a SP2 for Win7.