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Born, Brinkmann: Microsoft’s hotfix service is no longer available

Posted on November 5, 2018 at 04:13 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

I’d have a hard time extrapolating to all hotfixes in all situations, but Martin Brinkmann has hit upon a very disturbing trend:

System administrators and users who attempt to download hotfixes from Microsoft’s website are greeted with a “This hotfix is no longer available message”.

Günter Born’s Borncity web site has a German language post that, in addition to hotfixes, also decries the imminent death of FixIts.

I’m not sure what’s going on, but this certainly isn’t good news for Windows 7 users.

More info as it becomes available.

Windows News Fixit, Hotfix

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