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Windows 7 MARKED for DEATH by Microsoft as of NOW

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Re: No new features for Windows 7...

> Memo to MS, a service pack with the last few years worth of patches rolled up would be nice.

Amen. I installed Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 (the MSDN image) on a laptop yesterday and it had 176+ updates to install; took about 6 hours to grind through it all. Admittedly, this was an older machine with spinny-disk storage, but you'd think Microsoft could at least merge all the updates into the ISOs they make available - to save traffic on the WU servers, if nothing else.

Yes, I could have used DISM or something similar to merge the updates into the image myself, but I only had one machine to build, then clone.

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