Just installed SP1 on 64bit professional. Went smoothly in 20 mins. Freed up 7GB of diskspace on my SSD. Nice!
Windows 7 SP1 is out
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Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#22Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#23Ok, let's say I'm trying to be a nice guy and download it to a shared drive for the PC/Techs. Let's also say I don't use Windows. Is there actually a link for that?
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I think he's asking for a direct link that doesn't require you to go through the Windows validation requested in the link. That validation requires you download via a Windows PC.
Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#24That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.
Hardly boring. Updating provided me with adventure of traversing the clusterfuck that is the Dell website and re-discovering all kinds of interesting drivers, only to be told they're 'not compatible with this version of Windows'.
I love Dell's site too.
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#25I think we may have some history in the making here. This is the first SP1 for an MS OS release that I have no interest in installing. I probably will at some point, but my system is running so well that w/o new features I fail to see what the upside can be. Who would've thunk anyone would say about Windows... "No need for SP1. The original version is working like a charm."
...and so how are they going to buy the next version of the operation system in a years time?
I had this with Win XP - I prob used it for 8 years+. Vista was no reason to upgrade. Then I discovered OSX and made the switch over to Mac.
Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#26That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.
What kind of new features are you looking for?
They could do something that my Windows folder doesn't eat up 30GB of my SSD disk. Or do something like an app store where all applications get updated in a uniform manner. They could make the backup program usable.
There is so much that could be done.
Sometimes I wonder what the 50000 (just a guess) or so people in Redmond do.
Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#27Upgrades continue to this day! As an example, I updated my last household PC to Windows 7 Ultimate (up from Windows MCE 2004 from HP: a frankenstein OS).
It runs better than ever (2.4Ghz, 2GB memory). Media Center works great (looks like MCE 2005). For a 7 year old PC with AGP graphics (7600 GT) it's surprising how well Windows 7 performs. Assuming nothing breaks, it's still a good 'dev test server' for .NET and LAMP work.
Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#28That's the problem with Microsoft these days. It's just plain boring. Windows 7 has been out for more than a year and no new features.
Microsoft's main customer (as they perceive it, rightly or wrongly) is the enterprise.
Enterprises are not equipped to cope withe Steve Jobs style new OS every year - they want standardization and stability, and often be able to deploy their own build which they don't have to change for years.
Every time a new significant OS or SP comes out, many enterprises feel the need to do security audits, complete compatibility checks, acceptance testing while running their enterprise apps, rounds of 'training' for the people who can't work out how to do stuff on their own, etc.
Lots of reasons behind that, many will end over time. But for now that is why you don't see a lot of new feature orientated updates from Microsoft.
Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#29Re: Windows 7 SP1 is out
#30I think we may have some history in the making here. This is the first SP1 for an MS OS release that I have no interest in installing. I probably will at some point, but my system is running so well that w/o new features I fail to see what the upside can be. Who would've thunk anyone would say about Windows... "No need for SP1. The original version is working like a charm."
Well, TBH, Win7 is really Vista SP4.