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El Reg reports [theregister.co.uk]

As of October, users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and various server products can [say farewell to] a Patch Tuesday of downloading multiple files: Microsoft is implementing the monthly patch rollup it promised in May.

At the same time, however, Redmond has decided to kill off individual security patches, something that might not please sysadmins. Instead, a monthly security-only rollup will collect "all of the security patches for that month into a single update".

[...]Instead of individual patches for each platform, for Windows 7.1 SP1, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012, and Windows Server 2012 R2, there'll be a single set of updates.

The monthly rollups will include security patches and bug fixes, and each month's update will include the previous month's. That will reduce the chance that an update fails because it's got a dependency on a prior update (which, as Microsoft's Nathan Mercer writes in the announcement [microsoft.com], can often mean hunting for a file that's hard to find).

[...]Servicing Stack and Adobe Flash won't be included in the rollups.

In the comments [theregister.co.uk]

melts says

I am already imagining having to miss out on critical fixes as some not-too-critical update in the package is broke and affecting the overall result.

Updraft102 says

The fact that you have to take the crap with the updates is one of the reasons so many of us rejected 10.
[...]
Linux, as always, will be patched as soon as the updates become available; no waiting a month for MS to get around to providing a big monolithic update.

Alan W. Rateliff, II says

I shudder to think how this will affect environments with WSUS for the purpose of limiting specific patches to specific machines.

JeffyPoooh says

Does this mean Windows Update won't 'think about it' for 15 minutes?

Wensleydale Cheese says

A double whammy for those on restricted bandwidth
a) everyone gets the patches for other versions
b) last month's patches included

Buzzword says

Just call it a Service Pack
By the end of next year, we'll have Windows 7 SP17. It's not elegant, but it's much clearer than KB6765431123134654741324.

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