Microsoft wants to help business customers simplify those annoying software updates

[Kent Sharkey]

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Windows Autopatch is designed to make it easier for IT staffers to handle Microsoft’s software updates.

They're going to talk to that company producing all those annoying software updates?

[David ONeil]

The road to hell is paved with Windows updates.

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[Dan Neely]

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Besides keeping Windows current on workers’ machines, Windows Autopatch will handle updates for Office applications and Edge internet browsers.

So it patches the same stuff that Windows Update does today. Meaning instead of a new Icon, they just came up with a new name that they can charge more for? :rolleyes:

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It’s called Windows Autopatch and will come standard in Windows Enterprise E3 and E5, which organizations can deploy by subscribing to Microsoft 365.

Isn't the biggest problem that the IT Dept at MegaConglomoCorp has with updates that their cluster:elephant: of software/hardware is so fragile that monthly updates frequently break something. Renaming Windows Update's automatic post-patch Tuesday install and reboot won't help with that at all.

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