Microsoft Already Looking Ahead In The Future

Microsoft is already getting ahead of the game and they are working on the first service pack for Windows. If you have no idea what a service pack is, it basically installs all the latest updates to your computer and it also does some things that an update will not do, like increase the performance of your computer for example.

On the Within Windows blog, they were able to scoop out some details Microsoft hides from us, or at least tries to. In the registry of Windows 7, which is basically like a big database, they found a key that's cleverly named, "Win7SP1".

If you would like to know the full path of this registry key, it's located at "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareMicrosoftWindowsCurrentVersionWindowsUpdateWin7SP1". One small warning though, don't go browsing in your registry if you have no idea what you're doing; you can really tinker with things so much, that you can start breaking your copy of Windows.

I personally looked if I had this key, and I did not have it. But just to let you know, Microsoft always applies these keys to our registry to allow Windows Update to install service pack updates.

If I had to take a good guess, I would have to say somewhere, somehow, someone has Windows 7 SP1 installed on their computer, whether that's an internal test machine, or even a machine of Lenovo's.

I am wondering what Microsoft is going to do in SP1 for Windows 7. Windows 7, in my mind, is an extremely stable operating system. I can see Microsoft spooling out some security patches and maybe even performance updates to make it even more stable.

What do you think Microsoft is going to do with Windows 7 SP1?