{"id":7401,"date":"2014-04-17T09:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7401"},"modified":"2014-04-17T09:46:26","modified_gmt":"2014-04-17T13:46:26","slug":"and-its-one-two-three-strikes-and-youre-running-windows-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/and-its-one-two-three-strikes-and-youre-running-windows-9\/","title":{"rendered":"And It’s One, Two, Three Strikes and You’re Running Windows 9?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three’s a charm? Windows 8 patches could pave multiple paths to Windows 9<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Trying to piece together the puzzle created by Microsoft’s new patching policy, I was struck by an intriguing thought. If you look at the situation just right and connect the dots with a few leaps of faith, there’s a possibility we’re witnessing the birth of a “three versions” future for Windows 9 (code-named “Threshold”). That would be extraordinarily good news, albeit little consolation to those who are still stuck trying to install Windows 8.1 Update<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Microsoft’s confirmation that it will stop issuing security patches for Windows 8.1<\/a> has turned into a lightning rod for people who are unhappy with Windows 8 in general and Windows 8 patching in particular. You need look no further than the comments to Steve Thomas’ TechNet post<\/a> last weekend, which confirmed that Windows 8.1 customers who want new security patches have to first install Windows 8.1 Update. NSFW warning: Many of the comments about the Windows 8.1 Update requirement are not kind — or printable.<\/p>\n

(A note on terminology: Windows 8.1 Update — note the capital “U” — specifically refers to the patch made widely available last week as KB 2919355<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Cutting off Windows 8.1 patches is controversial. The argument goes like this: “If you want security patch C, you need to get security patch B first. In this case, security patch B just happens to be the 8.1 Update.” Fair enough…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest of this Woody Leonhard article here.<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three’s a charm? Windows 8 patches could pave multiple paths to Windows 9   Trying to piece together the puzzle created by Microsoft’s new patching policy, I was struck by an intriguing thought. If you look at the situation just right and connect the dots with a few leaps of faith, there’s a possibility we’re witnessing the birth\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7401"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7406,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7401\/revisions\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}