Windows 7: Microsoft needs to release Service Pack 2

Just did a clean install this morning and there are nearly 90 updates to install, and this was just the first round of updates before the first reboot. Subsequent updates totaled over 100.

Come on Microsoft, this is a bit ridiculous. Its past time to put all those updates into another service pack.

Bah!

It is to soon. 100 updates do not make a service pack.

I perfectly understand your pain and frustration, i deal with this every day too.

If MS wont release a full SP, they should release a mini-SP or a roll-up that contains all criticals till february, saving us tons of time and bandwith for those with shitty slow connections.

I suspect the next SP will start Beta arount September - once Win8 is out of the way - and release in early 2013. That just about leaves time to get another SP in before Windows 7 goes into extended status in 2015.

Geez, there will be 250 to 300 updates by then. Does't exactly help with the issue.

Don't forget that possibly nearly half the updates to date are not related directly to Windows 7 - they are for .NET4, IE, Silverlight, etc.etc., and would not be included in an SP2 anyhow.

Hi there

With decent Internet speeds and fast hardware it shoudn't have taken long anyway --however point taken -- maybe at least if not a full service pack why not provide a method whereby people can say download the updates separately and then slipstream these into a Windows 7 install disk themselves so if re-installing a clean version of Windows this sort of stuff CAN be avoided.

Doing it this way as well would perhaps make the release of a service pack not so necessary or at least only very rarely. Would be cheaper for MS in my view as well.

Cheers
jimbo

They can.

I found a useful tool called WSUSOffline which can be used to download updates once to a folder and then you can apply them to one or more PCs or reuse them later to save time:
WSUS Offline Update - Update Microsoft Windows and Office without an Internet connection

If you install Windows 7 SP1 and then spend a couple hours applying updates you get an updated system plus a few GB of replaced files you don't want. More time wasted to delete them and wonder whether you got everything and broke things in the process. I'd rather install all curent software even if it saved no time over the SP1-plus-updates route.