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FYI: Announcing Availability of Windows 7 SP1

by Carol~ Feb 10, 2011 12:09AM PST

Announcing Availability of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1

From the Windows Blog on February 9, 2011:

'Today we officially handed off the final release (RTM) of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to our OEM partners. On February 16th Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers as well as Volume License customers. On February 22nd, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will become generally available for folks to download via the Microsoft Download Center and available on Windows Update. (See below)

For Windows 7, SP1 will help keep your PCs well supported by delivering ongoing updates, many of which have been made previously available through Windows Update. It also includes client-side support for RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory which are two new virtualization features enabled in Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. Read more about those updates here from the Windows Server Team.'

http://windowsteamblog.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2011/02/09/announcing-availability-of-windows-7-and-windows-server-2008-r2-sp1.aspx
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Further Details from the Windows Server Division WebLog:

Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 SP1 Releases to Manufacturing Today

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Thanks Carol... Still Not Available For the Common Folk

by Grif Thomas Forum moderator Feb 10, 2011 1:20AM PST

As your clip from the article states: "On February 16th Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be available for MSDN and TechNet Subscribers as well as Volume License customers. On February 22nd, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will become generally available for folks to download via the Microsoft Download Center and available on Windows Update."

We've still got a week or two till the download is ready and once it's here, as long term use with MS service packs has taught us... TEST the installation process on non-critical machines first, just to make sure the service pack installs and works as advertised.

Thanks for the post.

Grif

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