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Microsoft Releases Big 'Convenience Rollup' Update For Windows 7
Microsoft has released a "convenience rollup" update for Windows 7 computers. The update to the nearly seven-year-old operating system brings with it a number of security fixes and patches that Microsoft labels as "recommended." Mary Jo Foley, reporting for ZDNet: The convenience rollup -- officially known as Windows 7 SP1 convenience rollup -- isn't Service Pack 2 for Windows 7, but it's the next best thing. The new Windows 7 convenience rollup is cumulative back to Service Pack 1, which Microsoft released in 2011. (Editor's note, the convenience rollup consists of all security and non-security fixes all through April 2016.) It doesn't include updates to IE 11 (which are released separately) or updates to .NET releases. But it does include core Windows fixes, security fixes and hot fixes.Microsoft says that convenience rollup package is completely optional. "Install this one update, and then you only need new updates released after April 2016."
Does it bundle Windows 10 and telemetry?
Be or ben't
How much you want to bet that GWX.exe is bundled?
Have you ever fallen asleep at the keybhanusdiog?
...in that it gives you the Windows 10 nagging, telemetry, and other "improvements" all in one!
So why can't they just call it a Service Pack? Because their support policy would require them to extend mainstream support for 24 months.
In spite of what Mary Jo Floey says, Microsoft still appears to be totally focused on moving everyone to Windows 10. This "Convenience Rollup" looks to be little more than some pretty wrapping paper that attempts to hide Windows 10 upgrade preparations for the remaining Windows 7 PCs. It installs all the "recommended" updates, one of which appears to be Windows 10.
Really? It makes sense to you to try to patch your guest OSes by connecting to the update site with a completely different host OS?
No, it makes sense to look at data on a website using a application that communicates in an agnostic protocol called HTTP
But yes .. if I can pull down an install file once to local storage and locally distribute it to the needed systems what does it matter what the intermediate OS is?
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
that when I reinstall Windows 7 SP 1 I won't have to wait 24 hours for automatic Windows Updates to run the first round of patches, because the list of updates is so big the manual update system chokes on it?
Seriously, Microsoft, this should have been done a year ago for that reason alone.
I've noticed many times before that Microsoft paid shills swirl the Slashdot forum posting lies and thinly veiled FUD - and usually there are a few sockpuppet accounts ready to mod them up. Please folks, don't fall for this paid propaganda machine.
These sockpuppets will possibly mod this post down, but no matter, I'll repost again.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Everyone posting is saying "OMG, it's full of spyware! I'm NEVER going to install this...."
That would be a mistake.
Since the introduction of Windows 10, the windows update servers that are serving the patches for Windows 7 have become unbearably slow. It now takes almost a whole day to download and install the 200+ updates.
Instead, you can just install this rollup package, and save yourself several hours of wating to install updates. This is a **GOOD** thing, people!
This post is retarded. There are a couple of updates that are included that I *don't* want. Do you really think that the convenience of getting updates faster by using this rollup changes my position on whether or not I want the unwanted updates?