Major changes to Microsoft updates

[MotzTech]

Looks like Microsoft is moving away from individual patches and towards monthly "rollup" patches. I can't wait to see the nightmare this causes when one of these rollups breaks a LOB app.

Even worse, every new rollup will include all the old ones. So if one does break something we won't be able to just block that one and update everything else...fun times ahead.

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...ervicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/

 

[MichaelEC]

Linux is looking better with every decision MS makes.

 

[cypress]

Read about this on Yahoo. Unbelievable. This starts October 2016 and removes the granularity of updates on Windows 7 / Windows 8.

 

[Porthos]

Guess the only thing left for 7 people that were holding out is the GUI. The rest is basically like 10 now.

Should help us on clean installs though.

 

[nlinecomputers]

 

[katz]

looks like Microsoft is moving away from individual patches and towards monthly "rollup" patches. I can't wait to see the nightmare this causes when one of these rollups breaks a LOB app.

Even worse, every new rollup will include all the old ones. So if one does break something we won't be able to just block that one and update everything else...fun times ahead.

Awesome! Bring it on, Microsoft. I need the work!

 

[sapphirescales]

It's almost getting to the point where turning off updates is better than actually letting Microsoft botch your client's whole computer.

 

[glennd]

It's almost getting to the point where turning off updates is better than actually letting Microsoft botch your client's whole computer.

I've been there for six months now. As for clients, if there's any kind of an issue with updates I just switch it off and make sure they have decent security software.

Awesome! Bring it on, Microsoft. I need the work!

I don't see how this will bring you work. For Windows 7, come October your only choice will be updates or no updates. If an update breaks your system or LOB or whatever, you'll just have to stop updates. For Windows 10 Home your choice is Windows 10 or something else.

 

[GTP]

Linux is looking better with every decision MS makes.

This is (one reason) why I love open source!

 

[ohio_grad_06]

Problem with open source is there's so much windows based software that is hard to replace for folks because windows is so entrenched. I use some open source programs, but when you are talking a full OS it's hard to replace something that's been entrenched in corporations for years. Seems like they are trying to be more like Apple in some ways if you think about it.