Whatever happened to that promised Windows 7 convenience rollup?

[Batu69]

Last year, Microsoft execs talked up plans to provide a rollup of fixes for Windows 7 in the form of a 'convenice rollup.' It's looking less and less likely it will ever debut

 

 

I've had a few readers asking recently about whatever happened to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 "convenience rollup" Microsoft touted last summer.

Last we heard at Ignite in May 2015, Microsoft was planning to deliver that rollup "in the coming months." The positioning, at the time, was this rollup would help Windows 7 users as they prepared to move to Windows 10.

 

This rollup wasn't meant to be a stand-in for the nonexistent Windows 7 Service Pack 2 -- something a number of Windows 7 users had hoped against hope might be released one day. But it was likely the next best thing.

 

Convenience rollups are a single package of fixes that were designed at "recommended" by Microsoft. During 2013 and 2014, Microsoft delivered several of these rollups. They were a way of getting more than one fix to a customer with only a single reboot required.

 

Microsoft didn't deliver in 2015 the convenience rollup mentioned last year at Ignite. When I asked this week for an update on its status, a company spokesperson sent the following:

 

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"There are more than 200 million monthly active devices around the world running Windows 10, with more than 76% of our enterprise customers in active pilots and over 22 million devices running Windows 10 across enterprise and education customers. With the success our customers are experiencing upgrading to Windows 10, we have not released additional updates to Windows 7 SP1 related to the upgrade process. We don't have further details to share, but we'll continue to listen to customer feedback."

 

I'm taking this as meaning we're unlikely to see any kind of convenience rollup for Windows 7. As we know, Microsoft's priority is to move users off previous versions of Windows to Windows 10 by hook or by crook. And at this point, the number of fixes in this overdue rollup would be pretty massive, I'd think.

 

Yesterday, in fact, Microsoft officials said they plan to start pushing the "Get Windows 10" upgrade notification to business users with domain-joined PCs who use Windows Update. And some time soon, Microsoft plans to recategorize Windows 10 as a "recommended" update some time in early 2016.

 

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[humble3d]

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If not warranted by any just occasion,

the least imposition is oppressive... 

Duress and coercion are not synonymous but, their meanings

often shade into one another...

 

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Prepare to FAIL...  

[steven36]

 No more new hotfixes for Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2, Mainstream support ended on January 13, 2015 only  security fixes  and get windows 10 update

http://thehotfixshare.net/board/index.php?s=af90baa79c94ff9a61c62c0b7a133d09&showtopic=22584

 

[straycat19]

Saw a laptop computer today running Windows 7 that I was installing a program on for a friend and her last windows update was  2 Jan 2011.  No AV software, no firewall, no nothing on it.  So I ran malwarebytes and scanned it with the Kaspersky boot disk and it is totally clean.  I had mentioned in another post once that I saw a Win 7 system that had 384 updates waiting to install and I don't know how many this would have had because I didn't turn the updates on to find out.  If she was happy with the system the way it was then so am I.  I still say updates and hotfixes are over rated, that common sense is much more effective.

[steven36]

3 hours ago, straycat19 said:

Saw a laptop computer today running Windows 7 that I was installing a program on for a friend and her last windows update was  2 Jan 2011.  No AV software, no firewall, no nothing on it.  So I ran malwarebytes and scanned it with the Kaspersky boot disk and it is totally clean.  I had mentioned in another post once that I saw a Win 7 system that had 384 updates waiting to install and I don't know how many this would have had because I didn't turn the updates on to find out.  If she was happy with the system the way it was then so am I.  I still say updates and hotfixes are over rated, that common sense is much more effective.

Back when 1st installed windows 7 before sp1  came out i had a bug with  the desktop freezing up i a grabbed a hotfix from hotfix share and fixed  it was latter when sp1  came out  when added it to the list.

 

Here's a list of different bugs it had before SP1

https://windows7professional.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/windows-7-the-definitive-bug-list/

 

There is no such thing as a bugless  O/S  and before SP1 win7 had many and it  still  has some bugs . But telling people  not to do security updates  is nonsense . Anybody that claimed to be and IT and tired to  feed me that.. I'd laugh in there face and tell them there not qualified to be a IT .

 

Here a list were most were not even fixed  after SP1

http://www.askvg.com/microsoft-windows-seven-bug-report/

 

Some bugs are present  in Win 7  that started in Win Vista  and still remain in Win 10 even . 

 

There's  a big difference than being bugless  and being stable  . Win 7 was so stable I ran it everyday 24/7  for over 2 years all updates and never had to reformat  .

 

I have a PC now  that came with Vista in like 2010   I updated it to windows 7 as soon as the free upgrade came in the mail and its been never reformatted  over 5  years latter. I only use it when I need to  have more than one  pc going at a time .

[davmil]

58 minutes ago, steven36 said:

Back when 1st installed windows 7 before sp1  came out i had a bug with  the desktop freezing up i a grabbed a hotfix from hotfix share and fixed  it was latter when sp1  came out  when added it to the list.

 

Here's a list of different bugs it had before SP1

https://windows7professional.wordpress.com/2010/01/19/windows-7-the-definitive-bug-list/

 

There is no such thing as a bugless  O/S  and before SP1 win7 had many and it  still  has some bugs . But telling people  not to do security updates  is nonsense . Anybody that claimed to be and IT and tired to  feed me that.. I'd laugh in there face and tell them there not qualified to be a IT .

 

Here a list were most were not even fixed  after SP1

http://www.askvg.com/microsoft-windows-seven-bug-report/

 

Some bugs are present  in Win 7  that started in Win Vista  and still remain in Win 10 even . 

 

There's  a big difference than being bugless  and being stable  . Win 7 was so stable I ran it everyday 24/7  for over 2 years all updates and never had to reformat  .

 

I have a PC now  that came with Vista in like 2010   I updated it to windows 7 as soon as the free upgrade came in the mail and its been never reformatted  over 5  years latter. I only use it when I need to  have more than one  pc going at a time .

Most people just drive & everything works just fine.  I rarely have problems with offices where people just work and don't surf around 'iffy' sites.  I've only had to reformat one Windows 7 machine in 5 years and 1,000s of PCs and that was b/cuz suffered partial drive failure with unrecoverable sectors, etc.  Microsoft's AV is good enough for these folks.  NSaner's push the envelope and their machines and get in trouble pushing the edge.  We all (should) know the risks of patches and medicine present to our computing environment.  That's fine and may be worth it to techies that know how to recover, but that's not the typical users experience.  

 

And bugs... whiners grow up please.  Every product/machine/proposal ever made has bugs and flaws.  ISO standards only ask that they be documented and published.  How many Monday afternoon meetings at how many companies have I sat through as marketing, tech support and engineering butt heads sorting through which bugs to repair vs. new features to move on with?  That's the reality of the business world.  Scarce resources and conflicting demands driving customer satisfaction vs. new sales.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, davmil said:

Most people just drive & everything works just fine.  I rarely have problems with offices where people just work and don't surf around 'iffy' sites.  I've only had to reformat one Windows 7 machine in 5 years and 1,000s of PCs and that was b/cuz suffered partial drive failure with unrecoverable sectors, etc.  Microsoft's AV is good enough for these folks.  NSaner's push the envelope and their machines and get in trouble pushing the edge.  We all (should) know the risks of patches and medicine present to our computing environment.  That's fine and may be worth it to techies that know how to recover, but that's not the typical users experience.  

 

And bugs... whiners grow up please.  Every product/machine/proposal ever made has bugs and flaws.  ISO standards only ask that they be documented and published.  How many Monday afternoon meetings at how many companies have I sat through as marketing, tech support and engineering butt heads sorting through which bugs to repair vs. new features to move on with?  That's the reality of the business world.  Scarce resources and conflicting demands driving customer satisfaction vs. new sales.

Most companies are slow to adapt  anyways most companies  didn't even leave XP  tell 2013/2014  I was already on windows 7 long  before  that and I was on XP  10 years...witch most antivirus software  was invented  for 98/XP before they had there own.  I been on windows 8.1   longer than most companies have been on Win7  lol...   and I agree Microsoft's AV is good enough  as long as you apply security  updates... even though I dont use it  or does any one on my home network. The reason  I dont use M$  AV is because I'm  old school .

For years Microsoft's AV has been the leader  and Avast  has been in 2nd  in the marketshare , regardless of  what the AV test say .

But its always  been that way back before Avast and M$  . The most installed AV was AVG  free even though most peoples  computers were ate up with virus that it could not prevent.