Microsoft have now released Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Beta to the public. This comes about 11 months after the release of Windows 7 RTM and is a good indication that we will see FTM of SP1 before the end of the year.

In my experience the installation takes about 4 times longer if you are only running 512mb of ram. While not many physical computers will have this much ram some virtual computers may be configured to this so I recommend that you reboot and temporarily bump you ram up to at least 1gb ram.

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