Microsoft released Windows 7 SP1 in the fourth quarter

The Malaysian technology website TechARP quoted sources as saying that Microsoft Windows 7 SP1 will be released in the fourth quarter of this year.
TechARP has repeatedly accurately predicted the release time of Windows XP and Vista service packs. The website said that an unnamed source said that Microsoft originally set the release date of Windows 7 SP1 to 22 months, but Microsoft recently changed its mind and hoped to advance this date in order to solve some serious vulnerabilities. TechARP said: "Microsoft is expected to complete the development of Windows 7 SP1 in the last quarter of 2010."

If this date is true, it will coincide with Microsoft's previous release of Windows XP SP1 and Vista SP1. Windows XP was released in October 2001, and 10 months later, Microsoft released Windows XP SP1. Vista was launched in January 2007, and Vista SP1 was officially released about 12 months later.

Or should be postponed

But market research firm Directions on Microsoft analyst Michael Cherry believes that Microsoft should reconsider the release time of Windows 7 SP1 and do its best May be postponed. He said: "There is no fixed rule for the release of the Service Pack. But this will become a psychological barrier, allowing users to wait for SP1."

Chery believes that Microsoft will benefit from the delayed release of Windows 7 SP1 . He said: "Windows 7 is currently performing very well, and if Microsoft announces that it will launch SP1, it will slow its sales. Logically, users will wait for the release of SP1. This will result in the current good sales situation of Windows 7. Inhibition."

Microsoft CFO Peter Klein has said that since July 2009, Microsoft has sold 90 million Windows 7 licenses. But Microsoft declined to comment on TechARP's news. A spokesperson for the company said: "According to Microsoft's policy, we will not comment on rumors and speculation. We have no new announcements yet."

Negative impact

Chery believes that Windows 7 is currently very popular and has been widely praised, so if Microsoft wants to break the habit of users waiting for SP1, now is a good opportunity. He said: "I didn't hear any major issues about Windows 7, so this time, letting users wait for the SP1 release will hurt Microsoft's own interests."

He believes that due to the current positive comments Therefore, Microsoft may also hesitate to Windows 7 SP1, and if SP1 is flawed, it will have a negative impact.

When Microsoft first released Vista in 2007, it said that because Windows Update can send patches to users, there is no need to develop a service pack, but the company later changed this position and launched Vista SP1. But Microsoft did not issue a similar statement for Windows 7. Chery believes that users still need a service pack. He explained: "When a user buys a new computer, he needs to use Windows Update to update the patch. There will probably be 50, 60 or 70 patches waiting to be updated, which will become a burden."

Since its official release in October last year, Microsoft has introduced several updates for stability and reliability for Windows 7. But a patch in January this year caused a blue screen of death in the system, but Microsoft said the issue is not a problem.