Microsoft Looks to Overhaul Windows Update
Your Windows Update is getting updated.
An update will be coming soon for, appropriately enough, Windows Update and Microsoft Update. The update will appear in late August, and it will take a couple of months to complete the rollout.
Microsoft wrote in the TechNet blog, "This update will not change your current Windows Update or Automatic Updates settings. It will improve the user interface for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 computers running Windows Update, adding a more visible and detailed description of updates as well as improvements in how users are notified about service packs. This update will not change the look and feel of Automatic Updates."
The update is mandatory for those who wish to stay up to date with the latest patches and fixes. Grabbing the update is easy as it will come as a part of Windows Update. Keep an eye out for it starting next month. Read more about it here.
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jacobdrj If it makes XP like Vista/7, great! Vista/7 do a good job on WU. Big improvement over XP/2k/98.Reply -
dafin0 jacobdrjIf it makes XP like Vista/7, great! Vista/7 do a good job on WU. Big improvement over XP/2k/98.Reply
this isn't for win XP -
apache_lives hang on, it will "will improve the user interface for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008" yet it will not "change the look and feel of Automatic Updates" ???Reply
WTF? -
chookman "It will improve the user interface for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 computers running Windows Update"Reply
Doesn't sound like it will change XP at all, I would welcome a more detailed explanation of patches on the machine though :) -
doomtomb apache_liveshang on, it will "will improve the user interface for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008" yet it will not "change the look and feel of Automatic Updates" ???WTF?Ya, I'm a little confused here. So what exactly is being changed about this?Reply -
acecombat doomtombYa, I'm a little confused here. So what exactly is being changed about this?So manual updates will give more information, however if you choose Automatic Updates it just runs in the background like it normally would!Reply -
matt87_50 heheh, i was installing windows live the other day, i gave up waiting when it got to the bit where it said "Installing installer..."Reply -
kato128 My understanding of this is the description gets a bit longer and possibly the box gets a bit bigger. Big whoop, must be a slow news day.Reply -
rdawise Did anyone else just get the feeling that Windows Updates are just going to take longer from this article.Reply -
computabug It's not really going to benefit the user much, Microshit just prolly wants an excuse to update WGA to crack down on piraters...Reply