The updates you really need to keep up-to-date on are the security ones(they are named "Security Update for."), these should be installed as quickly as possible after they are released. I run a thread monitoring windows updates and reporting which are safe, which are buggy, which are important, which help with security, which don't and which appear to do nasty things. If this is recognized as a Service Pack there are implications that the same support or lack there of without the latest Service Pack will be applicable to Windows 8. ToastyTech addresses the duplicity in language as well. What I find particularly disconcerting is the use of the term "Service Pack" used by Microsoft when referring to the Windows 8.1 "upgrade". If nothing else, this article is thought provoking, but is also disconcerting. This is an excerpt from a article at WindowsITPro. With the General Availability of Windows 8.1, customers on Windows 8 have 2 years, until January 12, 2016, to move to Windows 8.1 in order to remain supported.
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Windows 8.1 falls under the same lifecycle policy as Windows 8, and will reach end of Mainstream Support on January 9, 2018, and end of Extended Support on January 10, 2023.
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This provides me with enough time to learn whether the update is going to be problematic or not.Īs for being forced to upgrade a Windows operating system, Microsoft would not do this.
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Because of the number of updates which Microsoft has recalled I've set my updates to let me choose what and when I will install these.