Windows 7 SP1 released...

[Darren S]

....flol at the file size!

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/learn-how-to-install-windows-7-service-pack-1-sp1

D.

 

[Christopher]

That update's almost as big as Snow Leopard's entire footprint. LOL!

EDIT: It's actually bigger!

 

[DanFreemanPhoto]

lol does that install a new OS!

Downloading now

 

[Darren S]

More importantly - the release of SP1 effectively kills Microsoft's interest in XP now. They've been stating for ages that the instant SP1 is released for Win7, then XP is considered well and truly dead.

D.

 

[Storm_Force]

it also on the windows update thing if you want to install via there.

 

[Gareth]

installed, thanks for the heads up

 

[conneh]

Bad times.

 

[Jon.G]

Love how Windows Updater didn't consider SP1 'Important'.
Downloading.

 

[Darren S]

Just logged onto work and downloading both the x86 and x64 versions now. A tad bit quicker than my home broadband.

D.

 

[@Spoonie]

More importantly - the release of SP1 effectively kills Microsoft's interest in XP now. They've been stating for ages that the instant SP1 is released for Win7, then XP is considered well and truly dead.

D.

XP has been out of mainstream support for a while now.

 

[Cookie]

Shiny

Ta.

 

[Darren S]

XP has been out of mainstream support for a while now.

Sure has m8. Iirc, it was April/May last year when they started calling it a day on XP. From what the licencing people have said that I've spoken too, the release of SP1 would be the final nail in the coffin. I think it's generally accepted that XP has had it's day now though.

D.

 

[Adam.]

ahaha, I actually said to my boss this morning I hope they do a service pack soon due to the amount of updates!

 

[Jon.G]

Taking bloody ages to install. :/

 

[TimR26]

I'm still running XP if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Being Microsoft it probably will break soon LOL

 

[z8jay]

So the changelist is as follows (maybe with some other irrelvant stuff)

* Improved HDMI audio device performance: there’s a small update that helps reliability of HDMI audio devices after rebooting. This is listed as a feature in the release notes, but really feels like a bug fix.
* Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents: If you’re trying to print XPS documents that have landscape and portrait pages in the same document, now they will print correctly. All 5 of you can now rejoice.
* Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality: If you used the “Restore previous folders at logon” feature in Folder Options, the folders would restore into a cascaded set of windows. Now they will restore to where they were.
* Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX): supports a newer processor extension that improves performance for floating point intensive applications.
* Improved Support for Advanced Format (512e) Storage Devices: hard drive manufacturers are transitioning to a new 4KB physical sector size, and now Windows 7 supports this better.

Kinda useless for me tbh. I don't think I'll waste my time installing this just now.

 

[Cookie]

I'm still running XP if it ain't broke don't fix it.

Being Microsoft it probably will break soon LOL

Newer apps and games are going to stop supporting XP altogether soon-ish, if they haven't already started

 

[SC03OTT]

7 Gig for the 64 bit version?!? Am I reading that correctly?

 

[Adam.]

7 Gig for the 64 bit version?!? Am I reading that correctly?

A bit confusing but as it says 'free space required' I'm guessing its the amount of the original file + the space required to unpack etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda&displaylang=en

 

[Darren S]

7 Gig for the 64 bit version?!? Am I reading that correctly?

I thought that too originally. The 64-bit version doesn't even appear to be a GB though.

D.

 

[Cookie]

I've no idea how big my W7 X64 download was, it mentioned max of 800 odd meg though. I left it installing and went to bed

 

[Gareth]

Mine was minimal, it had 3 other things to download and the whole lot was around 80MB. I guess it depends how up-to-date your machine is.

 

[Andy.]

My x86 update was only 64MB.

 

[Adam.]

Done and installed on my virtual machine in 15 minutes!

Much quicker to install than any XP SP

 

[Gareth]

installed in no time on mine, but then you'd expect that with it being i7 and having 12GB & SSD.

 

[Brand86]

Mine had 4 updates to install last night after I went to turn off the machine, guessing one of these would have been the SP?

 

[Gareth]

Mine had 4 updates to install last night after I went to turn off the machine, guessing one of these would have been the SP?

it was optional, so unless you selected it . . .

 

[bmh.01]

Unless i'm being blind/stupid/otherwise I can't find a like to down the Server 2008 R2 SP1? Showed up in windows update and wsus but google can't find me a direct download??

Anyone got one?

 

[iain187]

I've got my laptop doing it at the moment hopefully it will be done by when I get home.

I bet this doesnt encourage our work to upgrade from server 2003/XP haha

 

[H182]

Unless i'm being blind/stupid/otherwise I can't find a like to down the Server 2008 R2 SP1? Showed up in windows update and wsus but google can't find me a direct download??

Anyone got one?

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=c3202ce6-4056-4059-8a1b-3a9b77cdfdda

Any help?

 

[conneh]

Am i right in thinking SP1 comes with KB971033 hidden away in it?

 

[Andy.]

Am i right in thinking SP1 comes with KB971033 hidden away in it?

Is that the genuine advantage one? I have a sneaking suspicion it does. I won't be installing at home for the time being.

 

[conneh]

I'm 100% sure it will have it in it, and yea it is the WGA one.