Greedy patching: Hot patching is a way to quickly install security updates without requiring an OS reboot. Microsoft has offered the feature for years through its ...

Windows updates get blamed for a lot, but a Microsoft veteran says the actual culprit can often be something else entirely.

In the aftermath of the devastating CrowdStrike outage this July, Microsoft vowed to do better even though it insisted that the event was an aberration. Evidently unwilling to take chances (or risk ...

Operating Windows Server securely without monthly reboots – - that's the promise of hotpatching. The preview of this can now be tested. Microsoft has announced hotpatching capabilities for Windows ...

Microsoft has already seeded its most popular patching tool for corporate users with a reference to Windows 7, its planned successor to Windows Vista . Windows 7 Client is listed on the ...

Microsoft enterprise customers who rely on Windows Autopatch for update management will now have hotpatching for Windows 11 clients enabled by default. This should reduce the number of restarts after ...

I always wake up to a few emails from readers, and this week was no exception. I received two short (one sentence) emails this week that I’d like to address. They are both follow-up questions to my ...