This month’s updates apply to a broad range of Microsoft products, features, and roles, including.
Let’s take a look at this month’s critical and important updates.Īs usual, you can download the Excel spreadsheet from the Microsoft Security Update Guide website for a full list of the October releases.
Toward that end, Microsoft released the following slate of Patch Tuesday security fixes on October 12 - which include fixes for Windows 11. Meanwhile, whether you’re running the brand new OS or an older version, keeping your operating systems and applications up to date is a never-ending effort. That’s what I did with my Surface Pro 7, and you can read about that experience and my first impressions of the new operating system on my personal blog. If it passes, you can download the Windows 11 installation assistant and do the upgrade now. The upgrade is free, and if you’re the impatient sort and don’t want to wait, you can use Microsoft’s PC Health Check tool to test your computer’s compatibility. Then it will roll out to the rest on a phased schedule, from now until the middle of 2022. The first machines to get the offer are new devices that meet the hardware requirements (which include a Trusted Platform Module version 2.0 as well as minimum processor, memory, and storage specifications). The new OS started to roll out on that date, but not everyone running Windows 10 has been offered the upgrade via Windows Update. After declaring back in 2015 that Windows would be “ the last version of Windows,” the company apparently had a change of heart and on October 5 released Windows 11. October is traditionally the time for tricks and treats, and earlier this month, Microsoft delivered what may be considered a treat by some and a trick by others.