Microsoft began distributing the first builds of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 during July earlier this year. Now reports are coming in that Microsoft have gone and updated a couple of those betas for a select few indiviuals over the last week or so.
Last Friday Zdnet reported that Microsoft refreshed a couple of the testers beta builds of Windows 7 SP1 and the new build number is now 7601.17077. The new build is said to have been made available to “TAP” partners, (Technology Adoption Program) and company officials have confirmed this.
“A private interim release went out Friday as part of our normal feedback loop with a small group of our testers – our TAP and OEMs,”
So this shows that Microsoft are making progress on the service pack builds anyway, but Microsoft said that we shouldn’t expect to see the first service packs released for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 Rs until the first half of 2011.
Then again, Microsoft said that we wouldn’t be seeing Windows 7 make an appearance until the beginning of 2010, but in fact it was released in October during 2009 thanks to positive feedback from testers and remarkable stable beta builds and release candidates.
Maybe there will be a similar situation with the first service pack, or maybe there wont be. Perhaps Microsoft are eager to get it out as soon as they can since many businesses traditionally wait until the first service pack before they update to make sure any bugs have been ironed out. Then again there’s the never ending debate that Windows 7 doesn’t actually need a service pack at all.
We haven’t heard of anything new in this latest build, it’s probably just got another little bug fix somewhere, that’s all that Windows 7 SP1 is mainly made up of anyway, there’s nothing really outstanding or amazing that the average user will notice.
