Windows 7 SP1 Coming Loaded On PCs in Early April Windows 7 SP1 Coming Loaded On PCs in Early April

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Windows 7 SP1 hasn’t been out too long, but Lenovo and Hewlett-Packard have already said they are going to start shipping it pre-loaded on their machines. Laptops and desktops from Lenovo will be shipped with Windows 7 service pack 1 starting in early April. Hewlett-Packard have said they are planning shipments of business PCs preloaded with Windows 7 SP1 soon afer.

 

HP won’t be shipping consumer PCs with the service pack until around mid-June however, as they are going to wait until their back-to-school-product launch.

 

Windows 7 SP1 was made available at the end of February to the public, while Technet and MSDN subscribers got their hands on it about a week before. At the moment most users should probably have it installed if they have their Windows Update center configured to automatically download and install new updates.

 

SP1 didn’t contain any major fixes, but it does patch up and fix a few little bugs that Microsoft have discovered since Windows 7 was released by in October 2009.

 

Dell have declined to say when they are going to start shipping their machines with the service pack installed, but their CEO Michael Dell said in the past that PC’s with Intel’s Sandy Bridge processors and Windows 7 Service Pack 1 could boost the client PC refresh cycle.

 

Microsoft haven’t yet released any Windows 7 installation media with SP1 to PC Makers, and we’re still not sure when they will. Currently PC Makers have to manually install SP1, a process which can take hours. More than likely, the sooner Microsoft release Windows 7 SP1 media, the sooner it will start shipping on machines.

 

via > http://www.windows7news.com/2011/03/12/windows-7-sp1-coming-loaded-pcs-early-april/