Hello, welcome to the Tuesday, August 16th, 2016 edition of the Sansanet Storm Center's Stormcast.

My name is Johannes Ulrich, and the time recording from Stockholm, Germany.

Microsoft will substantially change how updates are delivered for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 starting October.

It's year.

This will also apply to the same generation of server operating systems like Server

2008, R2, 2012, and 2012 R2.

What you will notice starting October is that instead of having to download individual patches for

individual vulnerabilities, you'll just be offered one big roll-up patch as Microsoft calls it.

It will include fixes for all vulnerabilities for October 2006.

Now going forward, the November update will actually include all the October

patches as well as the November patches so if you missed one particular month the next

month will include all the prior patches as well and not only that Microsoft intends

to also include updates, the four vulnerabilities

that precede this October 2006 roll-up. Now, if you are worried that these updates will

become larger and larger, you're probably right. And as an end user or a small business that's going

directly to a Windows update you probably won't have another choice but for

enterprises that use their own patch delivery mechanism Microsoft will offer a

security only update again it will be one update per month but the

security only update will only include one security updates for vulnerabilities

that are patched that particular month so you won't have that cumulative

effect that you have with these roll-up updates. So we'll have to see how

this all works out. Of course, Microsoft hopes that by offering one update, there will be less of

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