Windows Update for Business will include two new features: distribution rings, where an IT Pro can specify which devices come in an update wave, and can specify when those devices receive the updates and maintenance windows, where admins can specify when updates should occur-or shouldn’t. With Windows 10, we need a new approach for end-user devices at work.” “And last but not least, selective updating is an expensive, thankless task for IT professionals. “Selective updating creates platform fragmentation for developers, which impedes innovation and creates quality problems with apps,” Terry Myerson, the executive vice president of operating systems at Microsoft, said in a blog post.
Microsoft is doing its best to let everyone go at their own speed.
Net, and comes with plenty of quality-of-life features. It will no longer be UWP-only, with support for more popular packaging formats like Win32 and. For IT staff, however, those updates can be a pain. While it’s still early days for Windows 11, it has a new Microsoft Store new app, better dev support, and much-improved speeds.
Why this matters: Windows Update for Business addresses the reality of the so-called BYOD workplace-that there’s a separate class of user devices, whose owners expect to tap into the new features that Microsoft plans to add to Windows.