Microsoft announced the release of its Windows 7 SP1 public beta today at their Worldwide Partner Conference.  There are no feature enhancements in this service pack; instead it is just a roll up of previous released updates for the OS.

Although most firms usually wait for the first service pack to be release before deploying a new Operating System, there has been a significant effort by Microsoft to push companies to deploy Windows 7 before the final service pack released (which is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2011).  Various industry experts have recommended that customers not wait for SP1 as well.

Simplegrid’s Desktop Engineering Practice concurs with these recommendations.  We’ve designed and implemented a few Windows 7 environments ranging from 50 to 3,000 seats, and have not experienced any instability or performance issues that would require customers to wait for Microsoft to address in a service pack.  With that said, customers must still partake in significant planning to deploy a new desktop environment, and must also do their due diligence in ensuring that their applications are compatible with Windows 7 before deploying the OS.   

You can download the SP1 public beta here.

More information on features and updates being released in this service pack can be found on Microsoft’s SP1 beta overview page.

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