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Stuart J. Johnston
While the first service pack for an operating system typically arrives about a year to 18 months after a new system's public release, we're already seeing signs and pieces of what are likely to be bundled into Windows 7 Service Pack 1. InternetNews.com has the details.
Windows 7 , but more pieces of what are likely to be bundled into that release seem to be surfacing.
That momentum picked up speed on Monday evening when Microsoft released several non-security patches for Windows 7 and its counterpart Windows Server 2008 R2.
The batch of patches mostly consists of "reliability updates." This is not the first set of reliability updates, which are meant to make the system more stable. Microsoft actually released the first of those in October just before Windows 7's consumer launch.
Microsoft's new updates include four reliability updates, as well as two more updates aimed at fixing a very specific problem that involves 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The problem only crops up if the user's PC has a particular NVidia chipset, at least 4 GB of memory, and experiences system crashes while using a USB device, according to a description of the update on Microsoft's site.
January 28, 2010
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