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• Win10 cumulative update gets an update. Don’t panic!

  Posted on March 16, 2020 at 01:05 CDT by Tracey Capen • Comment in the Forums

  PATCH WATCH

  By Susan Bradley

  Even in the best of times, we almost always expect to get Windows-updating surprises. And these are far from normal times.

  Still, it was a bit shocking that two days after Microsoft released the expected March cumulative update for Windows 1903 and 1909, it released another cumulative patch.

  Read the full story in AskWoody Plus Newsletter 17.11.0 (2020-03-16).

  Patch Watch AskWoody Plus Newsletter, Deferring patching, Vulnerability, Windows 10 Cumulative Updates

• There’s a fix for the double-print security bug in Win7 and 8.1 – but not Win10

  Posted on August 25, 2016 at 13:16 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  A great demonstration of the Achilles’ Heel in “Windows- as-a-Service”

  The congenital Windows 10 penalty.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security KB 3177725, KB 3187022, Windows 10 Cumulative Updates

• Why you should worry about Windows 10 cumulative updates

  Posted on October 21, 2015 at 08:35 CDT by woody • Comment in the Forums

  Joe Belfiore says MS has talked with enterprises and determined that glommed-together Win10 patches are the way to go.

  I say that it’ll work fine – until we hit the first bad security patch.

  InfoWorld Woody on Windows

  Windows Patches/Security Windows 10 Cumulative Updates