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Microsoft: No More 'Patch Tuesday' For Windows 10 Home Users
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.
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.
>> Home users will receive updates as they come out
Are you sure that option isn't already on? It seems that a couple of my older Windows boxes already spend most of their cycles on downloading, processing (scanning) and installing countless updates.
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.
Yeah. Welcome to the new update regime for Windows 10 Home Edition...
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It will and it won't be a tablet or chrome book or netbook that replaces it, it won't even be an iPad.
It'll be your smartphone itself. It'll be your work computer and your home computer all on one device with a bluetooth or some other wifi connection to pass video to a full sized monitor keyboard and mouse.
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The big problem with Patch Tuesday was that most exploits from the following Wednesday on wouldn't get fixed for a month. MS should get rid of that.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
So... they will have to reboot daily from this point onwards ?
And wait for extra 15 minutes before leaving work ?
Oh god. Bring back patch Tuesday.
It will and it won't be a tablet or chrome book or netbook that replaces it, it won't even be an iPad.
It'll be your smartphone itself. It'll be your work computer and your home computer all on one device with a bluetooth or some other wifi connection to pass video to a full sized monitor keyboard and mouse.
Aint matching my dual screen monitors and my raid 0 ssd and i7. Yes I am an IT professional, but others who need real work done at home (the original IBM PC users) will keep it run office and a real screen.
No a crappy docking station with the mobile version of office won't suffice. At that price you might as well get the real PC.
However, Windows 8.1 is great on a surface or tablet and Windows 10 can do both and run ported Android and IOS apps. My guess is it won't be phone vs pc. It will be one where a real Desktop and monitor is needed for real work and not a gimped OS with no file system.
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Not sure how Win10 will turn out once it's final, but in the preview editions, you can't turn off autoupdate. You only control your reboot schedule, somewhat. If MS pushes out a patch, you either disconnect from the Internet or you download it, eventually. If you have to roll back a bad driver that you got this way, it'll keep making you redownload and reinstall the driver, again and again, and there's no practical way to stop it without some serious PowerShell hackery that might break Windows Update entirely.
It's one of Win10's worst features to date.
Score "troll", seriously? Who among us here hasn't had to fix breakage from a drive-by update?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
I think there's three markets here: (and my numbers are complete bullshit)
1. Joe Public, needs a web browser and perhaps a word processor (90% of the old PC market)
Solution: a cellphone, perhaps with docking station and external monitor (TV)
2. Advanced office user and 50% of developers and gamers (9% of the old PC market)
Solution: Something like the Surface tablets, with docking station and external monitor
3) Real power users and gamers with more money than sense (1% of the old PC market)
Solution: Workstation calibre desktops
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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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