Windows Server 2016 patching likely won't differ too much from the monthly cumulative update model laid out by Microsoft for other Windows products, but there are some nuances. In late October, ...

Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of its Hotpatch capability for virtual machines, which just works with the Windows Server 2022 Datacenter Azure Edition ...

Operating Windows Server securely without monthly reboots – - that's the promise of hotpatching. The preview of this can now be tested. Microsoft has announced hotpatching capabilities for Windows ...

Since September 2024, Microsoft has been letting interested admins try out hot patching for Windows Server 2025 free of charge. This allows security updates to be applied without the need to restart ...

I am new to the company where I work and responsible for the patch management process, before I started here there was none. Now I have implemented a patch management process, but we have a server ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The secret to the continuing availability of security patches ...

On May 21, 2018, Google Project Zero (GPZ), Microsoft and Intel disclosed two new Spectre- and Meltdown-related chip vulnerabilities: Speculative Store Bypass (SSB) and Rogue System Registry Read. The ...