Monthly cumulative updates coming to Win7, Win8.1 in October

deadite_9 said:
No worries, though. Monthly cumulative updates never, ever cause problems with Win10, right? :rolleyes:

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com...ervicing-model-for-windows-7-and-windows-8-1/
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From an oh jesus butt clogged choke point oh god they keep coming standpoint this bodes well for those on say Windows 7 who have to put up with hundreds of updates just to get current from a clean install.

The down side is as you mentioned the potential for more issues to be created rather than solved by said updates.
 
Seyiji said:
The down side is as you mentioned the potential for more issues to be created rather than solved by said updates.
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That's the main one. But there's also the matter of MS adding in new "features" to the cumulative updates, with no way to opt out of them. So it's a mixed bag, at best. Not to mention the headaches for admins/IT staff.

For the diehard holdouts among us, it looks like there will be an option to manually download a "security-only" cumulative update every month instead of the one that gets pushed to WinUpdate. So that's obviously gonna be my plan.

For every one else it's hold-onto-yer-butts-and-prepare-to-be-assimilated. :manches2:
 
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