"For Windows 7, SP1 will simply be the combination of updates already available through Windows Update and additional hotfixes based on feedback by our customers and partners," Gavriella Schuster, a general manager for Windows PMG at Microsoft, wrote in a June 7 posting on the Windows for Your Business Blog. "In other words, customers can feel confident about deploying Windows 7 now.

Windows Server 2008 R2's Service Pack will likewise include only a few updates, with Schuster noting, "While the new features for Windows Server 2008 R2 benefit Windows 7 by providing a richer VDI [virtual desktop infrastructure] experience, SP1 will not contain any new features that are specific to Windows 7 itself." The two new features for Windows Server 2008 R2 include Microsoft Remote FX, “designed to introduce a new set of end-user experience enhancements to remote desktop computing,” and Dynamic Memory, which will enable Windows Server Hyper-V to allocate memory to virtual machines as needed.

Microsoft also announced tweaks to Windows Azure and SQL Azure, including an updated Windows Azure Software Development kit with support for both Visual Studio 2010 IntelliTrace and .NET Framework 4.

Expect this year’s TechEd conference to be the source of similar tweaks-and-updates announcements.