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Microsoft: Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 brings no new features

Microsoft has in Windows 7 blog the first details about Service Pack 1 for named Windows 7. It will contain all published since the RTM version and patches provided some updates, but provide no new features.

“Therefore, no compatibility problems with existing software and hardware to be expected,” writes Daniel Melanchthon, Technical Evangelist for Security and Messaging at Microsoft Germany, in a blog entry. “If Windows 7 RTM runs, runs Windows 7 SP1.” It is not necessary to wait with an introduction of the operating system until the release of SP1.

Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 enhances the contrast of two features from the area of ​​desktop virtualization: RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. RemoteFX offer a hardware-accelerated 3D graphics output for remote desktop clients, Melanchthon. Dynamic Memory fit the main memory of a virtualized guest system dynamically to the actual needs.

Thanks to the new servicing stack and use the same kernel version, there will be only one version of Service Pack 1 that both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 update. A timetable for the release, Microsoft plans to announce at a later date.

The software vendor claims to have been more than 90 million licenses of Windows sold 7th According to Net Applications, came in October 2009, the operating system in late January, so about three months after launch, has a market share of around ten percent. The predecessor of Windows Vista required the analysts say about eleven months to reach this mark.

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