Alomst certainly - I would expect the Beta to start fairly soon (perhaps before Christmas) if for no other reason than to avoid having a clash with an inevitable early SP1 for Win8 <eg>)
I've done a little web-trawling in the meantime, and I think I may have found the source of the so-called attribution - and it was dated April.
We're now 6 months and three releases later - it's still BS.
I'm with the others here...I'm not holding my breath on a service pack for Windows 7. I think Windows 7 is a pretty solid OS, about as solid as XP, maybe even better. Windows 7 is always fast and BSODs are exceedingly rare. If I do get a blue screen, it's usually on my company-issued laptop and every time it's been McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention that's been the guilty party.
Sure Microsoft has released a LOT of updates via Windows Update, but oftentimes those go into Internet Explorer or Office. A Windows service pack isn't going to cover IE or Office products, especially since IE is a removable component and in Europe and Korea, it's not even there by default.
If they do release SP-2, it's going to be nothing more than a glorified roll-up of patches that have been released over the last year or two. If anything, it would be nice to see them release one so I could download all the patches in one nice bundle, and if I re-image a machine, I can install the patches in one shot, rather than as individual items. Of course, that still leaves the IE and Office patches.
Microsoft has got a lot coming out this year...Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Office 2013, SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2013. Not to mention their new Surface tablets. It's a big year for them, so I doubt SP-2 for Windows 7 is a priority.
Windows 7 Service Pack 2 probably will come jointly with Windows 8 Service Pack 1 !
but Microsoft Please Release Windows 7 Service Pack 2, with include all the update up to 31 of December 2012 at least. there are more ten 130 update, Warning to Microsoft, No matter what you do, i will NOT buy
Windows 8 ! and i will always downgrade new PC as well as. However your actions 'will caused me to consider if buying Windows 9 is be Wives, i am starting to not trust you any more.
Think about it
So far as I am aware there are no plans for a Service Pack 2 for Win 7 - and no plans at all for Service Packs for Windows 8.
Windows 8 will instead be serviced by means of cumulative updates.
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