Windows CFO Tami Reller has already been quoted as saying to the press that Windows 8.1 is not a service pack but should be seen as an update of the existing Windows 8 operating system.

Windows 8.1 is, from a support perspective, equivalent to a Service Pack (Microsoft lists it as the "latest update" to Windows 8), but going forward we'd expect even this kind of update to ...

In fact, beginning in Windows 8, the service pack, as we know it from previous versions of Windows, is essentially a dead idea. Much like updates on your smartphone, Microsoft is continually ...

Microsoft has been working for the past few years to convince users, especially business users, they don't need to wait until the first service pack to deploy a new Windows release. With Windows 8 ...

For updates released after April 2016, Microsoft will also produce monthly rollups of non-security updates, for Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 ...

Windows 7: 1 service pack, with no assurances on a future one being released; As shown, this number is declining, and service packs may cease entirely, if hints from Microsoft are correct.