Windows 10: Microsoft to Kill off Patch Tuesday

[Chiefcrowe]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/04/microsoft_windows_10_updates

 

[balloonshark]

Windows 10 enterprise customers will stay on the monthly update cycle, which will be reworked as Windows Update for Business: this will allow IT managers to pick and choose updates to deploy, and set when they will be automatically installed.


Meyerson said home users will get patches first, which will allow businesses to hold off and see what breaks before installing – bug patches have bugs from time to time, after all.

As a home user I hope automatic updates for Windows 10 can be disabled so I can opt out of beta testing Microsoft's patches.

Free upgrade to Windows 10 = beta tester for home users.

 

[nemesismk2]

i will be waiting for windows 10 to be released on dvd and will then disable automatic updates because i don't think i will be using windows 10 for very long. i have nothing against microsoft and hope that windows 10 is everything i hope you all want it to be.

 

[PliotronX]

Windows Update for Business: this will allow IT managers to pick and choose updates to deploy, and set when they will be automatically installed.

WSUS/SCCM much?

It's almost as if MS is taking everything good of prior Windows and changing it just to change it and 9 times out of 10 it's for the worse.

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

As a note, businesses already wait a few days before installing patches and/or do their own testing for patches on Patch Tuesday anyway. If you installed patches within the first week after install, you were part beta "beta testing" for Microsoft and businesses already.

My only beef with this is the continued issue of restarts on Windows, especially with the pushiness the Windows exhibits about them these days. The last few Technical Previews have had an issue wherein they report a restart is required erroneously so I can't even speak to how Windows 10 handles them versus previous versions.

 

[Puffnstuff]

KB3038314 proves that we're the beta testers lol.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I was cautiously looking forward to the prospect of "free upgrade/transition" from Win 7 to 10.

But I see a dilemma -- for me, anyway. I've got fading memories going back to Win 3.1 days for being a "hotdawg" too eager to move to a new OS release. This would always leave me with a system or systems that were slightly buggy for a few months. There was a lot of time wasted in troubleshooting and fixing. I suppose the worst episode involved my experience with Vista-64, but who WOULDN'T have missed some troubles with that?

I think VISTA was a defining moment for me: "From now on -- wait for the first service pack release before embracing a new OS version."

The rollout we're expecting to get "for free" will be the initial offering. I've got to explore the possibilities of acquiring it while delaying installation on all of our machines until I can assess it on a single test system. And there's some sort of 1-year deadline on the free upgrade/transition offer.

I'm even wondering if I'll be able to install it to a swappable drive on a test system, so I can replace the drive with the system's previous Win 7 if I want.

 

[Insert_Nickname]

I think VISTA was a defining moment for me: "From now on -- wait for the first service pack release before embracing a new OS version."

It has always been that way with MS OSs. Wait until the first service pack, or be prepared to deal with some issues.

XP RTM had its fair share of bugs too...

 

[tidy]

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[JEDIYoda]

i will be waiting for windows 10 to be released on dvd

never happen...