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Thursday, August 18, 2016

Microsoft changes Win7/8.1 redesigns, pushes significantly harder for Windows 10

Beginning in October, patches will be combined and Win7/8.1 clients will viably surrender control of their PCs to Microsoft.




Windows 7 and 8.1 have had a decent run, however that is going to find some conclusion. As per new rules, Microsoft will begin taking off Windows 7 and 8.1 (and additionally Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2) patches in undifferentiated month to month blobs. The patches will be total, which takes out the need to practice judgment in selecting the patches you need. In the meantime, however, the new approach seriously hampers your capacity to recoup from awful fixes - and it permits Microsoft to put anything it needs on your Win7/8.1 PC.

In the event that you haven't yet read Nathan Mercer's Aug. 15 post on further rearranging adjusting models for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1, I propose you do as such at this point.

To a first guess, Windows 7 and 8.1 clients have two options: Stop upgrading completely or acknowledge everything Microsoft ships. There are a few subtleties: Admins for Win 7 and 8.1 PCs connected to an upgrade server will have the capacity to freely juggle the security and nonsecurity blobs, while Home clients get both security and nonsecurity fixes together. Month to month Flash overhauls and .Net aggregate redesigns will take off freely. (See Paul Krill's InfoWorld article on .Net upgrading.)

It will take Microsoft a while to overlap the greater part of its old patches into the new plan, however all things considered, beginning in October it's Microsoft's way or the parkway.

As you may expect, numerous long-lasting Windows 7 fans (present organization included) are incensed. Following quite a while of picking and picking patches in light of their KB numbers, Microsoft is taking full control of the billion-or-so Windows machines that aren't yet assimilated into the Win10 fold. On the off chance that one of the new fixes breaks something, your lone decision is double: Remove the majority of the patches and sit tight a month for Microsoft to settle the awful one, or suck it up and live with the issue.

The individuals who are wary about Microsoft's new way to deal with snooping - patch KB 2952664 is oftentimes specified in such manner, yet different patches appear to be suspect - have motivation to wear their tinfoil caps. The basic truth is we have no clue what data Microsoft is gathering from Windows 7 and 8.1 frameworks, and we have no real way to discover. What's sure: If you need to keep your PC fixed, you won't have much decision.

The individuals who survived the Get Windows 10 fiasco now have significantly more explanation behind concern. Rather than pushing back against particular patches, for example, the castigated KB 3035583, Win 7 and 8.1 clients will have the capacity to pick between Microsoft's regimen or nothing by any means.

Indeed, even the individuals why should willing open their machines to Microsoft have justifiable reason motivation to dread terrible patches. We've had bunches of them throughout the years. Not exactly a year back, for instance, Microsoft discharged, then re-discharged, then re-re-discharged Windows 7 security patch KB 3097877, which solidified Outlook, blocked Network logons, and murdered a few projects. Fixing Windows 7 and 8.1 is a risky recommendation.

We don't have numerous insights about the new approach, yet apparently Win 7 and 8.1 will be changed to incorporate the capacity to move back the last fix, much as Windows 10 gives you a chance to move back a total patch. There's no discussion of permitting clients to preemptively piece new fixes; there unquestionably won't be any granularity in the new fixing plan: You either take it or you don't - and in the event that you quit taking one patch, you quit taking all of them.

For whatever length of time that Microsoft doesn't spoil the patches - and clients will endure Microsoft's snooping - this new approach positively has advantages. Apparently the hours-long sits tight for Windows Update sweeps will leave. The new Update routine ("overhauling stack") just needs to download the deltas - the progressions from the past form. Everyone will run the same form of Windows, which ought to make it less demanding to keep the patches working.

I say "ought to" on the grounds that Microsoft's record ain't so hot. Total upgrading in Windows 10 has functioned admirably, in spite of the fact that there was an issue recently, with a printer bug presented by the most recent aggregate overhaul, that is not yet settled. Savants will take note of that the Win10 introduced base is extensively cleaner than the Win7 and Win8.1 wilderness. The move to the Anniversary Update, which has been overflowing with issues, is an alternate story.

Combined redesigning in Office - that is, Office Click-to-Run - hasn't been so issue free. There were huge bugs in December that wiped out Word macros and customizations; two in February that made records solidify on open and thumped out POP3/erased mail; one in April that slammed Lync/Skype for Business and Outlook; one in June that created Office applications to toss a blunder 30145-4; and another in July where Excel won't open renamed HTML documents. That doesn't look good for Windows 7 as an administration.

Microsoft's been solidifying patches recently - KB 3161647 must be introduced in case you're willing to acknowledge six random patches, for instance. No less than one InterNet Explorer "security" patch has included nonsecurity fixes too. You need to think about whether this new approach will advance obscure the line.

Microsoft at the end of the day guarantees to alter its antiquated Update Catalog website, which still requires ActiveX and subsequently Internet Explorer. That is a well known hold back.

There are numerous unanswered inquiries. For instance, the official declaration says, "The Security-just upgrade will be accessible to download and convey from WSUS, SCCM, and the Microsoft Update Catalog." That would appear to infer that adequately roused Windows 7 clients who aren't joined to a redesign server will have the capacity to grab just security fixes and disregard the nonsecurity patches.

It shows up there will never again be recognizing data for individual patches. Rather, we'll see "solidified discharge notes with the Rollups for every upheld adaptation of Windows." It stays to be checked whether that is the demise ring for month to month security releases. It surely implies we'll see a tremendous lessening in the quantity of KB-distinguished patches.

We additionally don't recognize what will happen to the qualification amongst Recommended and Optional patches. Maybe we'll all get patches for the Azerbaijani Manit or we'll all get failed by a change to the Russian ruble.

Be of encouragement. On the off chance that the old Windows Update check boxes don't work right, Microsoft can push out a redesign that expels them or changes what they do. Perhaps an unchecked box will get to be identical to the old checked box, or the other way around. In either case, you won't have much decision in the matter.

In this fearless new world, one needs to think about whether it's justified regardless of the push to battle Windows 10. Microsoft is evacuating two of the immense recognizing elements of Win7/8.1 - granularity of redesigns and the capacity to control them - while opening Win7 and 8.1 to the same snooping highlights that are in Win10. Is resistance purposeless?


                                     
http://www.infoworld.com/article/3108405/microsoft-windows/microsoft-changes-win781-updates-pushes-even-harder-for-windows-10.html

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