Hey Pros! Going to install W7 next week and have a question before : How much updates is ready for download at WindowsUpdate? 60MB? 100MB? more? Ultimate Thanks.
instead of guessing can anyone tell us for sure, do we only need these 10 new updates? are we failing some genuine test on the windows update server and being only offered critical/security updates and not recommended? did these 10 updates roll up the old ones and supercede them? what the heck are the other 40+ update?
Actually i think u're right bro. Check it out : Got only the confirmed (=all officially released) updates for win, the rest is office
Misaki.. if you (or everyone else...) wanna install every single leaked Beta and outdated patch, it's your problem... We all know that some of those patches will be released on WinUpdate (but only SOME of them) and i do not think that M$ won't release a patch in WU if it's useful for something. And the problem is just to wait 6 or 7 days more to have them, but at least people can be sure that they're officially released. And... the question in this topic's title was pretty clear... if someone is asking about WinUpdate, he wanna knows about it, and not about "how many patches could i find since RC1 went out" ... Don't you think ?
Cumulative and superseded updates A lot of updates are cumulative, meaning they are large because the contain what's being updated now plus what was updated in the previous one which you don't need because this one supersedes it. For example, if you install a new system and run windows update, you won't end up with every version of Windows Defender definitions or the Malicious Software Removal Tool back to the beginning of time, just the newest one. Same goes for "Cumulative update for Windows Internet Explorer" - you'll only get one of those, till they release a newer one.
Rant on RSAT, since it was mentioned above For what it's worth, RSAT should have been included in the base install of Windows 7, since 1. it IS included in the base install of Server 2008 R2 and 2. Client and Server are built off the same code source, meaning that there was a conscious decision to exclude it from the client OS, thus requiring an update to put it back.