That being the case, organizations should plan to integrate SP1 into their initial deployments to reduce the number of major changes that will need to be distributed to production systems.” Lack of official ISV support likely will delay deployments until after SP1 arrives. This has many organizations wondering whether they will be able to begin their Windows 7 deployments within a few months after it ships and without waiting for SP1. “Windows 7 is basically an incremental release of Windows Vista.
However, organizations likely won't be ready to deploy Windows 7 before SP1 ships, so they will include it in their initial deployments,” Silver said. “The first Service Pack for Windows 7 is not necessary for the operating system's stability and security readiness. Still, Silver emphasized that business customers would only start deploying Windows 7 at scale anywhere from 12 to 18 months after the operating system was released. Market analysis firm Gartner predicted that “Windows 7 will not need SP1” in a research authored by Gartner analyst, Michael A. Windows 7 will make reality what the Redmond company has gone head over heels promoting for its precursor, Windows Vista: waiting for Service Pack 1 will not be necessary, the RTM build will do just fine. Service Pack 1 milestones in the context of customers giving themselves green light to embrace the platforms. Microsoft’s upcoming Windows client and server operating systems have the potential to break the mold of the RTM vs.