Microsoft is changing the model of updating Windows 7 and 8.1

Microsoft decided to change 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 automatically downloading all updates for Windows as a cumulative update package. The difference between this model and the one used in older versions of Windows is that when you update your copy of the OS to the current state, the user does not need to download and install each update separately, they will be downloaded and installed automatically. This measure is particularly relevant for users of fresh copies of Windows 7 & 8.1, which are not updated 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 due to the release of so-called. Service Pack 2, the cumulative update package, which is designed to organize a simplified procedure for updating the OS to the current state. Instead of a complex search and installation of 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 because of its inevitable obsolescence.