PC ADVISOR
FOR MOBILE

The magazine

Poll

When did you get your first home computer?:

View poll results

Have your say in the
PC Advisor forums!

News

News spotlights:

News by company:

News by product:

Windows XP | Windows Vista | Windows 7 | Apple iPhone | BlackBerry

Back to Business Advisor

November 3, 2009

Windows 7 SP1 beta coming in January?

Report predicts full Service Pack by next summer

Chris Brandrick

Rumours are circulating about the first Windows 7 service pack, just ten days after the operating system's official release.

As with any Windows release, Microsoft engineers start tackling bugs as soon as the OS becomes available, so reports detailing plans for Windows 7 SP1 aren't surprising.

The most recent Windows 7 SP1 rumours come courtesy of Wzor, which detailed that a beta release of SP1 is expected to arrive sometime in January of 2010, possibly around the same time as the annual trade show CES.

Wzor went on to detail that beyond the relatively viable initial beta in January, a further two beta releases could be expected throughout the first half of 2010. Futhermore, Wzor believes that two release candidate updates will add to the service packs development roadmap, before the final version arrives.

The completed service pack will then be made available to manufacturers in the late summer, with the concluding build being made available to end users via an update in the fourth quarter.

The majority of this report can be classified as just purely speculative for now, however Wzor has released an image showing the alleged folder stucture of SP1 to assist in solidifying the claims. In addition to this, Wzor have become somewhat infamous for various leaks of Windows 7 during its beta stage.

Microsoft has yet to comment on the legitmacy of this report.

See also:

Windows 7 review

<<newer story | back to index | older story>>

Comments

What are your views on this subject? Use the form below to post a comment on this article up to 1000 characters.

Comments received

soulman said on Thursday, 05 November 2009

If this is true then as usual Microsoft have released a product that is far from finished. If it needs upgrading so soon then obviously it was flawed when released. AS usual Microsofts advertising spin is outweighed by the actual product faults.

@soulman said on Friday, 06 November 2009

or.... Microsoft know that a lot of businesses hold off upgrading their systems until sp1 is out - therefore, from Microsoft's perspective, the sooner it's out, the better.

Submit to: Digg Digg Slashdot delicious Del.icio.us reddit Reddit