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This month’s Win7/8.1 patchocalypse – and what you should do right now

Posted on October 7, 2016 at 09:43 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

Every Windows 7 and 8.1 user should understand what changes are coming to the Windows patching methodology. Here’s my best guess as to what will happen – and what you can do to protect yourself.

InfoWorld feature.

Many thanks to ch100, aboddi86, Canadian Tech, and many other folks who helped formulate and flesh out this approach.

Windows Patches/Security Patchocalypse

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