Microsoft today announced service packs for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2, but declined to set a release date or a schedule for getting a beta in users’ hands. According to a company ...

Microsoft has made Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 available to all of its customers. Not sure if you need them or not? It's not a very glamorous update, but consider that SP1 ...

Microsoft today announced the availability of so-called "convenience rollups" for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, as well as Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. These optional updates are designed to facilitate new ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

The new Release Candidate editions for Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be the last public test versions before their final releases next year. Lance Whitney is a freelance ...

We already know Microsoft is hard at work on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1, but beyond that there are few details to share. The Russian site wzor.net, which leaked ...

Continuing on with our early Windows 7 beta coverage, we move onto Solid State Drive (SSD) performance. The topic of SSDs itself is rather interesting, but when you team up the increasingly popular ...

With little fanfare, Microsoft on Tuesday promoted Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to release candidate status, hitting the last major milestone before the code is finalized and shipped early next year. The ...

Microsoft [MSFT] has released a beta version of their service pack 1 (SP1) for Windows 7, and SP1 comes with a number of bug fixes and additional features for Windows 7. Windows 7 SP1 Beta is 1.2GB ...

The first service pack (SP1) for Windows 7 will emerge in the first half of 2011 according to Microsoft. SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2 will also be released in the same timeframe, according to the ...

Microsoft today officially handed off the Release to Manufacturing (RTM) build of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (SP1) to its OEM partners. On February 16, Windows 7 and Windows ...

I don't know why someone would be running Windows 7 without Service Pack 1, but if you're one of those users, you might want to upgrade soon. Why? Because the end-of-support date for Windows 7 without ...