Windows 10: Change May Be Coming to Windows Update

With the version 2004 update that I won't install until the Fall, Microsoft is changing the mechanism for deferring new feature updates for Windows Update for Business customers.

Windows Update for Business is a free service available for Professional, Enterprise and Workstation editions of Windows 10. It enables IT administrators to update Windows 10 devices within their organizations by connecting them directly to Windows Update.

Currently, Windows Update for Business customers can defer new feature updates for up to 365 days, just as consumers with the Professional edition of Windows 10 are able to do unless the current feature update is nearing end of support. ZDNet is reporting that this will change commencing with the v.2004 feature update.

Perennially-reliable Mary Jo Foley cut through the thick Microsoft-ese in Windows 10 2004 for IT Pros documentation published on June 23 to explain what's going on.

The jist of it seems to be that Microsoft is unhappy that some Windows Update for Business customers are only updating their Windows 10 devices once a year. Going forward, they will not have the ability to defer feature updatesat all through the Settings app. Instead, they'll have to rely on IT administrators to do this through local security policy.

None of this affects anybody posting in this forum, but you have to wonder whether Microsoft is dropping hints for how consumers may be treated in future.

:)

 

Intel E5200 Gets Updated, R0 Stepping Coming Up

Intel's Pentium Dual-Core E5200 processor is getting on course for a specifications update. The chip will feature in a new, improved Wolfdale-2M core, spec'd out as the R0 stepping, from its current M0 stepping. The new stepping is intended to add new instructions, power-management features, and bring about changes in the chip-package. A short list of known changes is as follows:

• CPUID changed from 10677 to 1067A
• Power State Indicator (PSI) support with Intel 4 series chipsets
• New instructions - XSAVE and XRSTOR
• New S-spec and MM numbers
• New halide-free chip package

Due to the changed CPUID, users may require BIOS updates to detect the CPU. According to the company, E5200 R0 should be out by April 13.

Source: TechConnect Magazine

 

HyperSLI (Enabling SLI on non-sli motherboards)

To turn off windows updates in windows 7 follow these steps:

Click the start button, in the search box type in 'windows updates', click on 'windows update'
in the search results list, in the left side of the windows update window click 'change settings'
then in the option bar select 'Never check for updates'.

 

Intel Updates Core 2 Quad Q9550 to E-0 Stepping

We continue our Monday news list with another Intel story that brings to our attention information concerning the company and more specificly its 2.83GHz Core 2 Quad Q9550 chips that will move from the current C-1 to the newer E-0 stepping. The updated chips will start selling on August 22nd, featuring the following changes:

• New SSpec and MM numbers for the converting products
• CPUID will change from 0x10677 to 0x1067A
• Package change to Halide free package

Apart from that, the new stepping CPUs will not include any other changes. Of course, like most new stepping parts a BIOS update will be needed.


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Source: TechConnect Magazine