Submitted by In what is surely news that will blow your mind because of its unexpectedness, Microsoft has announced the upcoming releases of service pack 1 for both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The company had nothing to say, yet, about release schedules or possible test releases.
The first service pack for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 will only contain minor updates, and will not include a lot of new features. The server variant of the service pack will introduce RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory.
“With Microsoft RemoteFX, users will be able to work remotely in a Windows Aero desktop environment, watch full-motion video, enjoy Silverlight animations, and run 3D applications,” Microsoft’s Max Herrmann writes, “All with the fidelity of a local-like performance when connecting over the LAN.”
Dynamic Memory is an improvement to Hyper-V which allows users to pool all available physical host memory together, and dynamically allocate it to virtual machines. In other words, if the workload changes, VMs can get access to extra memory without having to shut them down.
Client-side, the service pack delivers mostly bug fixes and the like, as well as the client aspect of RemoteFX, updating Remote Desktop to take advantage of said new technology. As usual, both client and server versions will also include all updates released up until that point.
As said, no release schedule has been announced.
Its really frustrating when the client side has a better hardware adn cannotuse it for displaying Aero. I hope it really is the answer. Will I be able to run a VM with windows xp with an copy of blender or another 3D App and then use it Via RDP! I hope so.
Wait a minute it seems it may just work.. So my first will be Battlefield 2 in RDP……..Cool
Edited 2010-03-18 23:23 UTC
Actually the most likely scenario is that you’ll be able to use a computer running Windows 7 to RDP to a Windows 7 VM.
Could it be?
I guess this helps overcome the procrastination of all those people who won’t consider a product until the service pack comes out.
Looking forward to hear how microsoft implement this for Hyper-V SP1. VMware do a good job of this, however i liked the performance of Hyper-V and the ability for my Windows 2008 R2 to perform other tasks aswell as the hyper-v.
Wouldn’t be surprised if this coincides with the Dot Net 4.0 release.
*YAWN*
Wake me up when they get to Windows 8 Service Pack 2.
In other news: after the news of the upcoming Service Pack for Winblows 7 got out, Paul Thurrott immediately got a violent erection, and called up his contact at Microfart to ask for a pre-alpha release candidate beta build.