Windows 7 SP1 sent to manufacturers
Microsoft has sent the first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to original equipment manufacturers, with a consumer release to follow later this month.
The news comes several weeks after Microsoft's Russian Windows localisation team had reported the update as being finalised from its first and only release candidate, and released to manufacturers.
Microsoft says the update will go out to consumers through Windows Update on 22 February. TechNet subscribers and Microsoft's volume licence customers will get their hands on it a week earlier, on the 16th. Service Pack 1 (SP1) includes an updated version of Microsoft's remote desktop client, alongside a round of hot fixes, and dynamic memory support for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2008 R2.
