Microsoft said that it might distribute a community beta of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) in July, except it hadn’t place a launch date through month.

The corporation completes the declaration from TechEd, the Microsoft IT and developer discussion that kicked off in New Orleans.

Microsoft recognized it was working on a service pack for its latest operating system in March, but at the time refuse to discuss timeline for distributes a public sample.

Microsoft's schedule for Windows 7 SP1 is in front of Vista's schedule by about two months. In 2007, Microsoft seeds a request only group of testers with an early on construct of Vista SP1 in September, but didn't present a build to the general public awaiting December, 11 months after that operating system's launch to retail.

Windows 7 SP1 is schedule to emerge nine months after the entrance of that OS.

Microsoft recurring what it said in March, that Windows 7 SP1 will not contain any novel features. "SP1 will not have any novel features that are exact to Windows 7 itself," said Gavriella Schuster, senior executive of Windows commercial product management group, in a post to a Microsoft corporation blog on Monday.

"For Windows 7, SP1 will only be the mixture of updates previously accessible during Windows Update and extra hotfixes based on advice by our clients and associates."