#Windows 7 sp2 install
#Windows 7 sp2 full
#Windows 7 sp2 code

That's likely to be available for Windows 7 along with whatever app store Microsoft comes out with, but not until it's available for Windows 8 (especially as Microsoft is talking down tablets again in favour of natural user interfaces like voice and gesture, which seems less out of touch after the relatively disappointing sales figures for tablets that aren't the iPad). Improvements to the touch options and the new 'immersive' phone-like interface in Windows 8 are tied in to a new programming model based on Silverlight and Windows Phone app frameworks. Similarly, support for ARM chips is a major rewrite and the work supporting x86 'system on chip' hardware is aimed at new PCs. We certainly don't expect any of the major advances planned for Windows 8 to arrive in SP2 virtualisation and fast boot into specialised versions of the operating system will need significant testing and probably depend on updated BIOSes (which means more testing).Дetecting what updates require a reboot will need more work on 'MinWin' (the isolated lowest layer of Windows that Microsoft aims to be able to swap out more completely in each new version of the OS).

#Windows 7 sp2 install

Even the non-fibre optic version of Intel's LightPeak that Apple is putting into MacBooks as Thunderbolt is about a year off on PCs so while that could coincide with SP2 it's still too soon to see support going directly into Windows.Д«ut SP2 could include direct support for USB 3.0 and SuperSpeed, so OEMs don't have to install specific drivers (and neither do you if you plug in a USB 3.0 add-on card). We do expect some extra hardware support, though. Most battery life improvements in Windows 8 concentrate on either better setup by hardware partners or on low-level kernel improvements that are tricky to retrofit. Search performance was something Windows 7 improved but over time results can get slower to appear on the Start menu as you type better multi-threading support for indexing and search could help keep that fast even as the number of items on your system grows - and we've seen search improvements in service packs before. There are still some updates we'd like to see in Windows 7 beyond bug fixes. Hotfixes are often available only directly from Microsoft support if you have the relevant setup and service packs include the updates with the underlying fixes service packs are the way those underlying fixes are distributed but again this is very much business as usual.

#Windows 7 sp2 full

The pieces of SP2 you won't get in advance from automatic updates are what Microsoft calls hotfixes urgent fixes for bugs that only occur on specific systems with specific combinations of hardware and software that are only tested on those combinations so the Windows team can get them out quickly while they work on a fix for the underlying problem and test that on the full range of PCs.

That makes rumours of a Windows 7 Service Pack 2 release date in the middle of 2012 plausible June would be another 16 months.

#Windows 7 sp2 code

The Windows 8 release date is still unconfirmed, but we're expecting an announcement and public access to a beta version at Microsoft's Professional Developer conference this September and that argues for the code being finished in the middle of 2012 and on sale before Christmas.