The announcement also stated security patches which will be combined into their own release at the end of each month starting in October as well. The only difference is, unlike the cumulative rollup mentioned previously, the monthly security update will NOT be published to Windows Update.
KACE will continue to support security and reliability updates as we have in the past. We anticipate Microsoft will follow their Windows 10 model and continue to leave the monthly cumulative updates accessible. We will continue to reference them in our content as long as they are available. We may revoke content following Microsoft’s lead as it is superseded. We are currently researching how best to include the CVE and other value-added information in the patch content. As each cumulative update is added the amount of information in the patch content will continue to grow. There are limits on what our products can store and display. We will provide a solution before the patch rollup begins in October.
Although this may be disruptive in the short term, we anticipate the overall stability of the Windows operating systems will improve over time.
See the original TechNet announcement from Microsoft Further simplifying servicing models for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 for complete details.
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