Like all good Monthly Rollup Previews, they’re released as Optional patches, so you have to specifically check them in order to get them - a procedure I never recommend.Įxcept, golly gee, on July 24, Microsoft announced: Then, on July 18, Microsoft released Monthly Rollup Previews for both Win7/Server 2008 R2 and Win8.1/Server 2012 R2, which apparently contain the manual download-only fixes. Microsoft released manual download-only fixes for the bugs for Win7 and 8.1 on July 16. Both contained three of the four bugs introduced in the Win10 Patch Tuesday security patches, including the Stop 0xD1 bug. Win7 and Win8.1 get their fair shareĪs usual, Win7/Server 2008 R2 and Win8.1/Server 2012 R2 both received a single Monthly Rollup (along with a Security-only patch) on July 10. It’s still too early to tell whether the third round of patches is viable. But we definitely have three cumulative updates for every version, so far this month. The dates in the Update Catalog and on the files themselves don’t line up. At least, I think they were released on July 24.

The build numbers in the Knowledge Base articles didn’t match the build numbers that people actually installed but, well, that’s Microsoft.Ī week after that, on July 24, Microsoft released a third set of cumulative updates, again for all versions of Win10. Those updates were specifically designed to fix the bugs introduced by the original updates. Six days later, Microsoft released a second set of cumulative updates, again for all versions of Win10. Almost immediately we heard screams of pain as four big bugs, later officially acknowledged, hit the fan. On Patch Tuesday, July 10, as usual, Microsoft rolled out cumulative updates for all of the supported versions of Windows 10. Three Win10 cumulative updates for each version in July And here we sit not knowing exactly which way is up. NET patches are in such bad shape that the. Microsoft’s claim that it will install the Win7 and Win8.1 Monthly Rollups defies logic. NET and Server patches still stink.įor most of the year, we’ve seen two big cumulative updates every month for each of the supported Win10 versions.

After a disastrous start, Windows 10 patches seem to be OK, but. If you ever wondered why people - and organizations - are taking longer and longer to willfully install patches, take a look at what happened this month.

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