Ahead of an expected official company announcement, a build of
Microsoft's upcoming Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) surfaced online on
a selection of Torrent sites, along with screenshots of the upgrade.
Based on information gathered from screenshots, the build date is March
27 and the build string is "build
6.1.7601.16537.amd64fre.win7.100327-0053." A writer for the technology
blog GeekSmack posted screenshots
of the installation process and his experience with the download,
describing the installation process as “much faster than the install
process for service packs on Vista.”
Windows 7 has so far been a much more successful launch than the much-derided Vista OS. According to recent figures
from Web analytics firm Net Applications, the operating system now
accounts for one in 10 computers accessing the Internet, representing
10 percent of the market share. Vista, by comparison, took 16 months to
reach the same point after its release. However, the firm also noted
Windows’ overall market share dipped half a percentage point from
February, down to a 91.6 percent market share.
The leak comes a day after Microsoft released details for Exchange Server 2010 SP1,
which arrives in June. Microsoft originally announced the worldwide
launch of Exchange Server 2010 in November 2009, on the opening day of
the TechEd Europe conference in Berlin. The company said it would bring
a number of changes to user interface, integrated archiving and
includes "fixes and tweaks", as team member Michael Atalla wrote on the
Microsoft Exchange Team Blog. "I also wanted to flag some of the
feature enhancements we're excited to bring to you with SP1, including
archiving and discovery enhancements, [OWA] Outlook Web App ...
improvements, mobile user and management improvements, and some highly
sought-after additional UI for management tasks," he wrote.
In addition to upcoming and leaked service packs for Windows 7 and
Exchange Server, Microsoft also announced an update for its Xbox 360
gaming console that enables support for USB devices.
The system update was released over Xbox Live on Tuesday. Microsoft’s
Major Nelson, who authored the tweet, also noted users can have two
devices connected to the console at a time, enabling up to 32GB of
simultaneous storage, and explained the system won’t just configure the
device once it is connected to the console.
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