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SP, SP, SP...... oh my goodness.
It's simply a delivery mechanism that rolls all the updates since the base RTM or previous SP release into a nice neat package. It's not as though MS is going to stop delivering updates.
I think, but am not certain, MS said the same of XP - and yet..... XP SP3
and perhaps the same for Vista, and yet Vista SP2
So, they have "no plans", and yet....... Win8 isn't getting rave reviews. In my mind, Win8 will suffer the same fate as Vista, for some of the same reasons, and MS will buckle under pressure to package updates into an SP (or 2). The IT folks in the business community will force MS to make their lives easier. The business administrators aren't going to retrain workers to use Win8 - that costs money. Win7 will benefit from Win8 development and there will be service packs - plural.
Anyway, that's how I see the world.
Bill