Microsoft changes the model for updating Windows 7 and 8.1

Microsoft decidedchange the update delivery model for Windows 7 & 8.1 to the one used for Windows 10. The latter uses a more advanced update model, which is based on the automatic download of all updates for Windows as a cumulative update package. The difference between this model and that used in older versions of Windows is that when updating their copy of the OS to the current state, the user does not need to individually download and install each of the updates, they will be downloaded and installed automatically. This measure is especially relevant for users of fresh copies of Windows 7 & 8.1, on which there are no updates at all. From October 2016, users of these OSs will be able to upgrade a clean copy of the OS to the current state with just one cumulative update.

Previously, Microsoft has already tried to make life easier for users of "clean" copies of Windows 7 through the release of the so-called. Service Pack 2, cumulative update package, which is designed to organize a simplified procedure for updating the OS to the current state. Instead of the complicated procedure of searching and installing each specific update, the user could install them all at once. The new measure is more universal, because after installing SP2, the user would still have to update Windows 7 in stages due to its inevitable obsolescence.