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Microsoft: No More 'Patch Tuesday' For Windows 10 Home Users

Posted by Soulskill on from the no-more-patchy-coverage dept.

citpyrc writes: According to the Register, Microsoft is making some changes to how it rolls out updates in Windows 10. Home users will receive updates as they come out, rather than queueing them all up on "patch Tuesday." Business users will have the option to set their own update cycle, so they can see if any of the patches accidentally break anything for home users before trying them out. There will also be an optional peer-to-peer updating mechanism for Windows 10. Microsoft announced a service called Advanced Threat Analytics, which employs various machine learning techniques to identify malware on a network. As a premium service, top-dollar customers can pay for Microsoft to monitor black-hat forums and alert the company if any of its employees' identities are stolen.

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  1. Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's interesting how this habit by Microsoft has become embedded in the IT operations of many companies.

    It will be cool to see if what the effects are (ie. what breaks) with this change since it's "process" change much more than an a technical change. Often, that's where the biggest challenges are since dependencies and other factors are often invisible at first glance.

  2. random breakage by roc97007 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > Home users will receive updates as they come out, rather than queueing them all up on "patch Tuesday."

    So random breakage, then, rather than breakage on a particular weekday. Sucks to be a home user.

    > so they can see if any of the patches accidentally break anything for home users before trying them out.

    "if"? It's inevitable.

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    1. Re:random breakage by gstoddart · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Yeah, no kidding. I predict Microsoft is 100% guaranteed to mess up a LOT of machines. I don't trust *any* vendor's patches on day one, and Microsoft even less.

      If Microsoft thinks they're not going to be pilloried by saying "fuck it, we're updating your machine and rebooting now" they're idiots.

      If Microsoft just goes ahead and does them, they're going to create a support nightmare as they'll fuck up machines left and right.

      When will Microsoft learn that there is a reason why we don't trust them?

      Sorry guys, but I'll apply patched and reboot my computer when I choose to, not when some idiot in Redmond decides for me. it's my property, not yours.

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  3. Excitedly waiting for my computer to break by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Business users will have the option to set their own update cycle, so they can see if any of the patches accidentally break anything for home users before trying them out.

    Looking at the The Register article, apparently Terry Myerson himself actually said the above. So home users are now officially crash test dummies for Microsoft's quality assurance? Cool, buckle me up.

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