Thursday, October 25th 2012
No Service Pack 2 for Windows 7: Report
Microsoft has no plans to release a new service pack (SP) for Windows 7. Sources at Microsoft's engineering team told The Register that breaking precedent (of releasing a new SP every 2 or so years), Microsoft will not release SP2 (service pack 2) for the operating system. Apart from being a collection of important software updates over a period, a service pack allows Microsoft to introduce major updates to key components of the operating system, such as its kernel. Apparently, Microsoft's Windows team is too busy with Windows 8, and it is observed that by choosing to not release an SP, Microsoft could be pushing users to its newer OS. Instead of newer SPs for Windows 7, Microsoft will release timely updates for Windows 7 SP1 over Windows Update, till the operating system's support lifetime runs out (that's January 2020).
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The Register
98 Comments on No Service Pack 2 for Windows 7: Report
I suppose a good side of this is that Windows 8 could be improved more rapidly than before.
We{consumer} need to Re-up our OS as SOON as you put out a New one? Bull Sh@t!
I JUST installed 7 on my New PC build , about 8 month's ago , and till then I ran XP from it's beginning. Some people Don't want the New Software , we just want What is Comfortable , and Easiest/Familiar. IMO , this is a VERY Scummy move by MS , I am unsure as to how much of an effect it will have on the performance of 7, but if it is a Large negative impact , then I would say I definitely stand behind my Previous statement's.If not , well then I guess it's not such a big deal. Although as a final thought , a Company need's to realize that keeping up the support for their product's is the MAIN goal , and developing new product's is a Secondary Goal. Atleast as far as Customer /Software support is concerned.
/sarcasm :)
Nah, if you asked me, it's just MS phasing out Win7 early. Reception of Win8 isn't fully guaranteed to be positive, so they are giving existing Win7 users another reason to upgrade.
Mind you, as long as security patches keep on coming, few people will change their minds about 7. At least till 8 gets a year's worth of patches and fixes. It is a fine OS, even though I personally dislike the GUI and the boot sequence.
Not that im worried as they say it will be continued to be updated till 2020 and by then we will have Windows 12 :laugh:
MS definitely would be smart to put the Aero Desktop back in for those who like it that way and those who like metro to keep it. Not force it like they are, MS tried this crap with Vista and it made them impromptu replace the OS with 7 which most actually like.
This isn't some vast conspiracy of Microsoft trying to push you to Windows 8 by stopping support for Windows 7 (it has support until 2020 at least), this is just a different philsophy in updates. Compare it to something like the new Rapid Release schedule of Firefox. Instead of releasing one major version every year or so, and thus causing feature additions to be delayed till they could be added with the major release (even if the feature was ready for months now) they now release them every 6 weeks as the new additions and features become available.
This is the equivalent of that. Instead bottling everything up in major Service Pack updates, they'll be releasing the same updates and same performance enhancements and same security patches they always have, just on a more rapid schedule. Anyone who is bemoaning this move has no idea what they're talking about. This changes nothing, except allowing Microsoft to iterate the major updates even faster than before.
Windows 8 looks like the new Vista imo.
Second they will still be providing updates, all this means is they won't be bundled into giant updates, this is far from the end of the world you acting it to be like.:shadedshu