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With Windows 10 set to gyre out on July 29, the company is all the same putting the finishing touches on how it will offer companies and consumers regular updates and patches. One thing is certain, however: The pace of those updates volition exist faster than information technology has been in the past — and but how fast volition depend on some decisions users will have to make.

The radical new system envisions more frequent maintenance releases, quicker security fixes and even new features on a rolling basis. It'due south a far cry from what Windows users have grown accustomed to over the by two decades. There's even new terminology to depict what Microsoft has planned, merely to further confuse things. Y'all'll be hearing a lot near branches and rings in the months alee.

Here's the basics of how the arrangement will work, based on what we know and then far from Microsoft:

PC users at abode running Windows 10 Abode or who upgrade from the basic versions of Windows 7 or Windows 8.one will be on what Microsoft calls the "Electric current Branch." (Yes, that'due south some of the new vocabulary you'll accept to learn.) That'south the fastest release path, with updates coming near every four months via Windows Update (WU), the update machinery Microsoft has used for 20 years. Electric current Branch updates are more like Service Packs, and users will be expected to take them as is — though yous tin opt for a slower "ring" that gives you a trivial more time to actually do the installation.
Businesses — or people running Windows 10 Pro or who upgrade from Windows seven Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate, or from Windows 8.1 Pro, will get what'south called the Current Branch for Business (CBB). This offers more flexibility in update timing, although like the Electric current Branch (see in a higher place), it'due south automatically delivered and it'south all or zippo. No picking and choosing which updates to accept. These updates will come up via Windows Update for Business (WUB) — the new service Microsoft unveiled in May. WUB is like a loftier-stop version of Windows Update for businesses, and will push out updates 4 months afterward consumers go them. That's designed to help piece of work out whatever early bugs before companies get the changes.
Companies that pay for Software Assurance (SA) volition be on the slowest track. It's called the Long-term Service Branch (LTSB) and is designed to lock downward devices. A Microsoft product manager has described LTSB as "very like to Windows vii." Security and problems fixes reach devices, but those systems don't get the feature/functionality/UI/UX changes for Windows ten. Note: LTSB is the only branch that Microsoft guarantees volition receive support for ten years, five in "Mainstream" back up, the following v in "Extended" support.
Security updates volition exist released on an as-needed basis, meaning the monthly Patch Tuesday routine anybody's used to is going away. (Current Branch and CBB updates offer up characteristic, functionality, UI and UX changes, not security fixes.) In this area, Microsoft has been less straightforward; the supposition is that everyone, consumers and companies, will exist offered whatsoever patches automatically and practical immediately. Companies that choose a slower ring may take more fourth dimension to apply them, nevertheless.

One final note: While users may be able to delay exactly when they get updates and how fast they apply them, they tin can't avert them all together without losing admission to security updates.

With reports from Gregg Keizer at Computerworld