- Microsoft has a great vision of Windows Update that offers updates for the entire software installed on the PC
- To start, this is mainly aimed to the business world, but there is no reason why consumers will not also benefit also
- However, developers must be persuaded to connect their applications to the new Microsoft unified delivery platform.
Microsoft plans that Windows 11 is in charge of all software updates through the Windows updates system, or that seems to be the idea for the future.
The Verge detected a Microsoft blog post that described a vision of the “unified future for applications updates in Windows”, as written by Angie Chen products manager.
While this is a IT PRO blog post, and as such it is aimed at IT administrators and organizations, since Microsoft advances in this direction, there is no reason for consumers to also benefit from this.
This is surely the plan, even if it is not explicitly mentioned, since the publication announces that a private prior view of the new system is now starting, which any application developer can join to start preparing its software for the new world of Microsoft updates.
As is now, Windows Update provides relevant updates for the operating system itself (of course) and related frames, as well as drivers sometimes. When it comes to individual applications, or software suites, it depends on the developer to deliver them through their own mechanisms.
Microsoft wants to change this by introducing a “Windows native update orchestration platform that allows any application developer to use Windows Update to deliver patches for its software along with the Windows 11 regular updates.
As Microsoft explains, there are several benefits to work in this way, among which it is that it maintains simple and simplified things to obtain all its updates of a source.
In addition, you can see a history of all updates throughout its PC through the update history in the Windows 11 configuration application. In addition, developers will be able to use the powers of the operating system in terms of deciding when to apply updates, such as obeying the user or administrator time windows to update, for example.
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All this makes sense, and the convenience of combining all updates under a center managed by Windows in itself is surely taking a step forward.
After all, with the updates that depend on the delivery methods of individual software developers, it may be easy to be left behind, especially if the update mechanism is hidden somewhere and does not happen automatically. Or, in fact, if you do not execute software for the ages, it could be circling in the background in a miserably without flashing state.
With Windows Update driving all this, he would be aware of his software updates consistently, at least in theory. That said, cynics could be quick in the reliability of the Windows update.
Fald update facilities are not exactly uncommon and are reported with some regularity. However, remember that these are updates for Windows 11, updates of the most complex and nudous operating system, and it is unlikely that small application updates suffer such wrinkles. And if they, or not, will presumably be reduced to developers anyway, largely.
It is worth noting that he obtains updates through Windows applications automatically with software installed through Microsoft Store, but, of course, far from each developer he wants to use that store.
Concerned about application support and any software is out? Each base must be covered, with support for all types of common applications (not only Microsoft’s own creations, such as MSIX applications), as described in the blog post.
However, there could still be a capture here, namely, which depends on software developers to use the new Microsoft platform. And nothing forces them to connect to the system, will they bother?
That is the billionaire question, but from my perspective, everything seems like a pretty sensible idea. While this can be a plan aimed at the business world initially, I can imagine a broader movement towards this Windows update model for all types of application developers eventually. And as they make the jump, others could be persuaded to continue …
