Windows 7 SP1 Public Beta Released

[Tews]

Microsoft announced on Monday that the first Windows 7 Service Pack 1 public beta is now available.

Speaking at Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington, Corporate Vice President of Windows & Windows Live - Tami Reller announced the public beta. Microsoft revealed its plans for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 last month at its annual Tech-Ed conference. Windows 7 SP1 will include the usual hotfix patches and new virtualization tools in SP1 will help Windows Server 2008 R2 users prepare for cloud computing. SP1 will include RemoteFX which provides rich 3-D graphical experience for remote users. The service pack also will include a series of incremental updates, previously released on Windows Update for both Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.

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Documentation: Documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta (KB976932)

See also: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/99064-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1-beta-uninstall.html

 

[marsmimar]

Any guesstimates on how many MB this service pack will be? Or when it will come out of Beta and be released as a regular Windows Update? I can't remember that far back to XP and the release dates for SP1. All I remember is how large SP2 was. Old age is rapidly affecting my one remaining brain cell.

 

[Airbot]

Thanks.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Cool, thanks Tom.

 

[theog]

Thank's

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Just a heads up ...



If you're not "in an IT profession" it won't let you dl it.

 

[Tews]

Simple solution ... select IT professional or Developer, then download it...

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Simple solution ... select IT professional or Developer, then download it...

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[Win7User512]

Can't wait for the final one just to see the updates to RDC. That's the only thing I have to look forward to with this...

 

[Airbot]

All done and installed. All good.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

I'm going to re-install Windows in a day or so and then I'll add this.

 

[mickey megabyte]

i know we were all beta-testers back in the day, but...beta patches?

no thanks, and no offense, i'm gonna wait.

is there anything new?

 

[Win7User512]

i know we were all beta-testers back in the day, but...beta patches?

no thanks, and no offense, i'm gonna wait.

is there anything new?

Nope. Other than new virtualization stuff for Remote Desktop (RemoteFX).

http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2010/03/17/explaining-microsoft-remotefx.aspx

 

[Airbot]

Here is some info from the SP1 on the updates it includes, and some other information. It's from a slightly older SP1 version, but you can get an idea of what it includes.

View attachment Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1-3_2_10-KBList.zip
View attachment RDS_RFX_SxS.zip

Here's an up to date description: Download details: Documentation for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 Beta (KB976932)

 

[DeepUnknown]

wow isn't it a fast update?! I wonder what does it have to make windows 7 better.
but still thanks for sharing

 

[Win7User512]

IDK about anyone else, but I'm more than a bit disappointed in the fact that no new features are being introduced.

Something new for audio/video editing? DVD authoring? I mean, come on. Movie Maker is worse than in Vista and DVD Maker is so shallow.

 

[mickey megabyte]

all that media/fun stuff is reserved for the windows live package.

microsoft think they can update faster if they remove it from the actual os - that's why there's not even an email client in 7.

so this beta patch is just a collection of the updates we've already got?

i'm underwhelmed. :sarc:

...but in a way it's good - it shows there was nothing that really needed urgent fixing.

must have been due to all those beta and leak testers...

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

At least it'll simplify the Windows install process, won't have to dl and install the almost 40 updates after an install, I can live with that.

 

[derekimo]

Simple solution ... select IT professional or Developer, then download it...

That worked for me.

 

[mickey megabyte]

very good point ted.

i didn't think of that - although i have reinstalled my os twice in the last week!