Today is the date selected by Microsoft to begin to deploy the new way in which you will present us with system updates. The guys at Redmond have been slow but in the end they realized that the previous update system was only making the problem worse instead of fixing it. Last August we informed you of the modification of the update system that will affect Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Window Server 2008, 2008 R2, 20012 and 2012 R2. With this new way of launching updates Microsoft says it will deliver a more consistent and simplified service experience.
With this new update system we will not have to install update after update every time we format our computer, but we will only have to download a single package in the form of an update, a package that will include all the news of the operating system in question since it arrived to the market. This package will include each and every update that has been released, so we are going to have to leave the computer on overnight waiting for the updates to be downloaded and installed and to restart again to reinstall more.
From now on the updates will be released independently. On the one hand we find the patch or update Security Updates that offers us all the security patches published up to that moment. And on the other hand we will find the Monthly Roll-up that will integrate all the updates of the operating system in question, a package that will be updated to the latest news included or modified in that OS Today this new method of cumulative updates for Windows has begun to be deployed, an update system very similar to the one we can find today on Windows 10.