Windows 7 Service Pack 1 coming this week!

This week Microsoft is hosting its own major event this week, TechEd.

At TechEd, Microsoft unveiled that it is working on Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7 and expects to have a public beta version available in July.


SP1 represents a sort of technology rite of passage indicating an acceptable level of product maturity. So, many businesses and IT administrators don't even consider adopting a new operating system until it reaches SP1.

"SP1 will not contain any new features that are specific to Windows 7 itself. For Windows 7, SP1 will simply be the combination of updates already available through Windows Update and additional hotfixes based on feedback by our customers and partners. In other words, customers can feel confident about deploying Windows 7 now!" as announced Gavriella Schuster in the Windows for Your Business blog from Microsoft.

Several organizations of all sizes are already in the process of deploying Windows 7 and not waiting for SP1. As Schuster added, eh company has already sold over 00 million licenses of Windows 7.

Schuster, meanwhile, considers Windows 7 to be already a huge victory for Microsoft. The success of Windows 7 is driving increased sales of PCs, and is one of the primary factors behind the ascent of Internet Explorer 8 to become the number one Web browser, as well as its continued growth.

The official release of SP1 is due by the end of 2010, probably in November.