What's new in Win 7 SP1

mjf said:

Will SP1 become mandatory for ongoing (and past) updates?

I expect that down the road that will be the case, based on the standard Microsoft Support Lifecycle.

Quote: Originally Posted by pparks1

Quote: Originally Posted by Lost Colonist
Some of my programs are using less memory than they did prior to SP1. For example, Firefox with 6 addons and one tab (this website) was running at 100MB memory usage. With SP and the same addon set it sits at a little above 50MB. In general, my computer's memory usage is down.

This doesn't make much sense, how would the service pack alter the memory usage of firefox?

Microsoft made the task manager report less memory usage for programs so you can feel good about doing the service pack update.

But getting serious,

Quote: Originally Posted by mjf
If I install an earlier image I will continue to get automatically missing updates - correct?

I know that at least one thing in SP1 was released only as a hotfix, not a general distribution update:

KB982018: An update that improves the compatibility of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 with Advanced Format Disks.

"Improves compatibility," is MSSpeak for "fixes some pretty serious bugs that could make certain system functions, such as Windows Update, stop working, and could cause disk corruption and data loss."

If there was one of those, there could be more, and that one is a pretty important one if you're using an Advanced Format Disk. Just based on that, unless Microsoft were to announce otherwise, I wouldn't rely on a pre-SP1 image getting fully updated by Windows Update.

Would you?

SneakerNet,
Please read the entire thread, especially the information provided by Brink.

I had already read the entire thread, including the post you mentioned? So? What does that have to do with my post?