Microsoft has released some more detail on the upcoming service pack for Windows 7, and it’s something that Microsoft is clearly hoping won’t discourage early adopters.

Interesting to see MS pushing Windows 7 adoption so hard...

Microsoft must by now be well aware of the tendency among its business customers to hold off on installing a new version of Windows until they’ve had a chance to see the first service pack land, at which point updating seems a far more solid thing indeed. It’s hard to argue with that kind of logic, but if Microsoft’s blog post is anything to go by, it seems that Redmond is trying to push that a little harder, aiming to have people upgrading before service pack one by pointing out that it’s mostly minor tweaks rather than larger revisions.

According to the blog post from Microsoft, the Windows 7 SP1 update won’t see things changing massive, with the company pointing out that,

“For Windows 7, SP1 includes only minor updates, among which are previous updates that are already delivered through Windows Update. SP1 for Windows 7 will, however, deliver an updated Remote Desktop client that takes advantage of RemoteFX introduced in the server-side with SP1 for Windows Server 2008 R2.”

The blog post then goes on to say fairly openly,

“So don’t wait – go ahead and deploy… you know you want to! ”

Certainly, the tone of the blog is a little strange, but it does give an interesting insight into the extent to which Microsoft is both aware of the “don’t update before the first service pack” rule of thumb that so many employ and willing to get out there and tackle it, encouraging people to make the move to Windows 7 now, rather than later.