Edunology - Saumya Aggarwal

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Take heart Windows 7 users, the first W7 service pack finally has an official mass-market release date: February 22nd.

If you are a MSDN or TechNet Subscriber, or a Volume License customer, you can get your hands on the final software straight out of Redmond on February 16th.

The February 22nd launch date is right on time, squaring with our previous knowledge that the service pack would be released in the first quarter of 2011. There have been various leaks throughout the history of Service Pack 1, but at long last the official software will be released.

What should you expect? RemoteFX, a tool to help boost the 3-D graphical experience for users who are remote will be included alongside a host of minor (read: incremental) upgrades and improvements. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 will be released at the same time.

The release of various service packs for different versions of Windows often mark their ‘coming of age’ for certain corporate customers who only want to bet on proven tools. Not that Windows 7 is selling poorly, the opposite, in fact, but this can only help boost already strong numbers.

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Janco Assocoiates, a management consulting firm, has released data regarding Browser and Operating System Market Share. What is nice to see is windows 7 has clogged 14.8 percent of the OS market. This is more than Windows Vista users on any day. It comes as a relief to Microsoft which faced a lot of heat on its Vista OS.

However one interesting fact is that Microsoft has been through rough patch in last six months. Its Internet Explorer market share which is taking it on back foot as its market share has fallen to the level that it was in 1998.

The top five browser market share rankings are: Microsoft's IE 67.73 percent; Firefox 17.88 percent; Google (Desktop & Chrome) 5.40 percent; Mozilla 1.36 percent; and Safari 0.98 percent.