The Redmond giant says Creators Update users will get new cumulative nonsecurity updates, according to Michael Niehaus, a Microsoft senior product marketing manager for Windows. Niehaus explains: Niehaus adds that the company is making new changes to the updates it rolls out for Windows 10 based on feedback from customers. The new update scheme includes one or more additional updates every month. The cumulative updates will include only non-security updates. Microsoft may also consider a cumulative update as “Critical Updates” in WSUS and Configuration Manager if non-security fixes that address more critical issues. There are various options for how organizations handle these new non-security cumulative updates:

Deploy each of them just like the updates on “Update Tuesday.” This enables the organization’s PCs to get the latest fixes more quickly. Deploy each of them to a subset of devices. This enables the organization to ensure that these new non-security fixes work well, prior to those same fixes being included in the next “Update Tuesday” cumulative update which will be deployed throughout the organization. Selectively deploy them, based on whether they address specific issues affecting the organization, ahead of the next “Update Tuesday” cumulative update. Don’t deploy them at all. There is no harm in doing this since the same fixes will be included in the next “Update Tuesday” cumulative update (along with all the new security fixes).

Microsoft plans to field questions about its “Windows as a service” update approach over the coming days.

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