There have been several recent Windows 10 patches that aren’t Cumulative Updates: KB 3087040 fixed Flash in IE (my main production system shows KB 3087040 was installed two different times on Sept. KB 3081444 (CU 4), we’re told, includes the IE security fix described in MS15-093.
Most of those Cumulative Updates arrived with absolutely no description. 15, CU 6.1 = KB 3095020 for Russian, Bulgarian, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, and Tajik locale tags Here’s my informal tally of the Cumulative Updates Apparently that won't be the case anytime soon. I’ve kvetched at length about Windows 10’s stealthy patches, always hoping Microsoft would see the light. In case you wondered, I think rapid-fire cumulative patching is a bad idea - and a few thousand people who signed last week’s petition asking for more transparency and better blocking tools likely agree. With eight Cumulative Updates for Windows 10 now under our belts, I think we can draw a few conclusions and point to several examples of how this decision may play out. While Microsoft’s intentions are laudable (in some respects), they’re entirely dependent on one important point: In order for this to work, Microsoft must deliver patches for Windows 10 that are a lot better than the ones we've seen for every earlier version of Windows. And we believe that this method will deliver that. So our net intent is to improve the quality overall, for everybody. and our feeling talking with them is that the net result that you get is better… We've seen lots of examples of situations where end users experienced lower reliability or unpredictable system performance because of a relatively untested combination of updates. We've involved a lot of companies and real-world IT management organizations in talking through the implications. Yesterday, Blair Hanley Frank from IDG News Service reported on an interview with Windows VP Joe Belfiore, describing Microsoft’s continued refusal to break apart Windows 10 cumulative updates.
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