• Patch Watch: Microsoft starts the Win7 countdown and all the latest about this month’s patches

    Susan Bradley steps through Microsoft’s latest death knells for Win7, what we know – and what we don’t.

    There’s also a lot of patching toil and trouble:

    • SHA-2 support for Win7 in a Servicing Stack update (too early to install)
    • Win10 cumulative updates (ditto)
    • Win7 and 8.1 monthly rollups (ditto, unless you’re using Internet Explorer)

    Our Patch Lady continues with a cautionary tale of too-cheap-to-be-true Office 2019, puzzlement over this month’s dearth of Office fixes, and a roundup of Japanese kalendar Keystone Kops reruns.

    Details in this week’s AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.10.0, out this morning to AskWoody Plus Members.