Windows 7 SP 1 Beta Download

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Windows 7 Services Pack 1 beta download is available now on Microsoft download center.  This Windows 7 Services pack 1 available news was announced by Microsoft at its Worldwide Partner Conference 2010. The official press release goes like this

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Beta helps keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level, provides ongoing improvements to the Windows Operating System (OS), by including previous updates delivered over Windows Update as well as continuing incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback, and is easy for organizations to deploy a single set of updates.

However, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 beta doesn’t come with tons of new features and mostly contains all the previous updates on Windows 7.

Windows 7 SP1 Beta Features :

Changes specific to Windows 7

  • Additional support for communication with third-party federation services
  • Additional support has been added to allow Windows 7 clients to effectively communicate with third-party identity federation services (those supporting the WS-Federation passive profile protocol). This change enhances platform interoperability, and improves the ability to communicate identity and authentication information between organizations.

Improved HDMI audio device performance

  • A small percentage of users have reported issues in which the connection between computers running Windows 7 and HDMI audio devices can be lost after system reboots. Updates have been incorporated into SP1 to ensure that connections between Windows 7 computers and HDMI audio devices are consistently maintained.

Corrected behavior when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents

  • Prior to the release of SP1, some customers have reported difficulty when printing mixed-orientation XPS documents (documents containing pages in both portrait and landscape orientation) using the XPS Viewer, resulting in all pages being printed entirely in either portrait or landscape mode. This issue has been addressed in SP1, allowing users to correctly print mixed-orientation documents using the XPS Viewer.

Changes common to both client and server platforms

  • Change to behavior of “Restore previous folders at logon” functionality
  • SP1 changes the behavior of the “Restore previous folders at logon” function available in the Folder Options Explorer dialog. Prior to SP1, previous folders would be restored in a cascaded position based on the location of the most recently active folder. That behavior changes in SP1 so that all folders are restored to their previous positions.

Enhanced support for additional identities in RRAS and IPsec

  • Support for additional identification types has been added to the Identification field in the IKEv2 authentication protocol. This allows for a variety of additional forms of identification (such as E-mail ID or Certificate Subject) to be used when performing authentication using the IKEv2 protocol.

Support for Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX)

  • There has always been a growing need for ever more computing power and as usage models change, processors instruction set architectures evolve to support these growing demands. Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) is a 256 bit instruction set extension for processors. AVX is designed to allow for improved performance for applications that are floating point intensive. Support for AVX is a part of SP1 to allow applications to fully utilize the new instruction set and register extensions.

This Windows 7 services pack 1 weighing 1.22 GB in size the build number is 7601.16562.100603-1800 and was complied on June 3rd, 2010.  You can download Windows 7 SP1 is available via Windows Update service and also you can download it as a standalone installer.

Download Windows 7 Services Pack 1 DVD.iso [1.2 GB]

PS: you can burn Windows 7 SP 1 ISO to a DVD or extract it using tools like WinRAR. Once you have extracted, double click the file setup.exe found in the package.

Posted by km on July 14, 2010 in: Windows 7 News, Windows 7 Software

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