Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users. Last September, reports of Microsoft conducting a “stealth” update of its Windows Update (WU) service angered users and put the company on the defensive.<\/p>\n
\n“Beginning at the end of this month and continuing over the next few months, we'll be rolling out an infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent,” said Michelle Haven, a product manager in the Windows Update group, in a posting to the team's blog late last Thursday. Haven went on to say that the update, which would affect both Microsoft's back-end update infrastructure as well as the client-side software necessary to use WU directly or access it through a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Microsoft has announced it will upgrade Windows' update mechanism later this month, a warning that comes nearly a year after the company issued a similar upgrade without informing users. Last September, reports of Microsoft conducting a “stealth” update of its Windows Update (WU) service angered users and put the company on the defensive.<\/p>\n
\n“Beginning at the end of this month and continuing over the next few months, we'll be rolling out an infrastructure update to the Windows Update agent,” said Michelle Haven, a product manager in the Windows Update group, in a posting to the team's blog late last Thursday. Haven went on to say that the update, which would affect both Microsoft's back-end update infrastructure as well as the client-side software necessary to use WU directly or access it through a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n