

My cynical friend Barking Eddie turns this observation on its head and says that Windows 7 should have been called Vista SP4, and this should be Vista SP5.

Actually, the fact that SP1 is so boring is a compliment to Microsoft testing the original Windows 7 RTM so thoroughly. We expect Windows service packs to contain hot-fixes and security updates, but what’s almost unprecedented with Windows 7’s SP1 is that Microsoft introduce so few new features. Any program’s SP1 will be the easiest to install simply because you don’t have to worry about accumulating all the previous service packs as you do with SP2s and SP3s.
