Microsoft has three service branches for Windows 10. Organizations have some control over Windows 10 updates based on Microsoft's service-branch models. This "Windows Update Delivery Optimization" capability creates an update cache on PCs in a local network and then transfers the bits needed to other PCs in the network, according to Microsoft's FAQ on the topic. The updates can be large ones, too, although Microsoft has a peer-to-peer PC upgrade scheme turned on by default to address potential bandwidth hits. In the new Windows as a service world, it appears that organizations can expect Windows 10 updates to appear whenever they are ready. An analyst with Gartner Inc., though, has said that Windows 10 feature update releases are planned by Microsoft for every four months, which is more information than Microsoft has indicated. This release is just one of many more to come, it seems. Such information might be useful for IT pros, but Microsoft seems to be deliberately ignoring its past nomenclature used to describe release milestones in its new "Windows as a service" world. Another dispute is whether there actually was an RTM release of Windows 10. Some tech writers are disputing whether this cumulative update release is the first one or not. Gabriel Aul, Microsoft's main spokesperson for the Windows Insider releases, indicated in a Tweet on Wednesday that this Windows 10 cumulative update "doesn't have a It doesn't have a name afaik (SR1), it's just a cumulative servicing update.- Gabriel Aul August 5, 2015Īul, incidentally, was recently promoted to vice president of engineering systems for Microsoft's Windows and Devices Group, according to this Microsoft News story. Press accounts anticipating this release have labeled it in advance as "Service Release 1," or "SR1," but Microsoft isn't using that phrase. Microsoft had previously indicated that its future Windows 10 releases would be cumulative ones. As a cumulative update, this release contains all of the changes since the last release of Windows 10, so organizations and individuals will just get the changed bits that they don't already have.
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