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Today marks an important milestone for Windows 7: it's the arrival of the operating system's first service pack since its release in late-2009.
Service Pack 1 (SP1) was released to manufacturing earlier this month, with the announcement that it would arrive in consumer hands this week. The software is set to hit Windows Update later today, with it already being posted as a 1.95GB download bundle for all versions on Microsoft's Download Center. TechNet subscribers and Microsoft volume license customers got access to the update last week.
The service pack itself does not bring any new whiz-bang features for consumers, but brings two important back end additions that promise to improve performance in Windows 7's server counterpart, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1. The update adds :-1).Dynamic Memory as well as 2).RemoteFX.
This Two technologies that increase the density of virtual machines, as well as the graphical prowess of thin-client hardware respectively (more on those here).
The RemoteFX feature is also coming to the consumer version of Windows 7 in the form of client-side support.
Also included in SP1 are a number of fixes for bugs and security holes, which may be useful for those who do not use the auto-update feature, or are applying the update to machines that do not have an active Internet connection. Other small changes include improved HDMI audio device performance, a fix for printing mixed-orientation XPS documents, and "improved support" for Advanced Format storage devices.
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