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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Actually they probably aren't
Service Packs are usually bug fix roll ups only. The only exception to this was XP SP2 which had to rewrite large parts of the OS to make it more secure than it was
Because of this one off everyone expects new features to be added with a SP release.
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Blackcomb was originally going to be XPs successor this was meant to have WINFS and various other new features. Longhorn was originally going to be an interim build similar to what ME was to Win98 however the development took on some of Blackcombs features and dropped some others .Longhorn was delayed due to problems with XP security in favour of service pack development and later released as Vista. Development restarted on Blackcomb under the new name of Vienna and later Windows 7 which we see today.
I see Windows 7 as an optimised Vista with the major difference being how it deals with ram and other system resources