Now, if any of you had seen the reports of the contents of the leaked winmain_sp builds released during June, you may not be so cynical regarding the service pack. There are some interesting changes in those builds that never actually made it to the final RTM of Windows 7 - I personally believe that Microsoft planned to add a lot mroe into Windows 7, but due to time constraints were forced to leave some of the features out and roll them up in a service pack.

Since a lot of admins don't even take a second look before the first service pack anyway, the majority of the enterprise market wouldn't miss out on anything, and stripping those features out means Windows 7 became the first OS in recent history that Microsoft has released on time (and perhaps the first in history to be released early; remember Bill mentioning something about "3 years after Vista?" That'd be January.)

Lets just say that I am quietly confident that SP1 will bring more to the table than security rollups and enterprise peace-of-mind.