Windows updates and inconvenient restarts have been uneasy roommates for decades. Microsoft is now trying to make them see much less of each other.
Windows 11 hotpatching allows eligible business PCs to install certain monthly security updates without restarting. Combined with Microsoft’s newer effort to consolidate other Windows updates around a single monthly restart, the company is making a broader push to reduce one of the most disruptive parts of enterprise patch management.
But hotpatching does not mean the end of the Windows reboot. For IT teams considering the feature, the more useful questions are how many restarts it can actually…
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