Don't you just love terms like: "...ongoing stabilization of business continuity..." Look at some examples of stabilization: Enablement from 18362.1002 to 18363.481 could not readily take place. Releasing KBs with the same numbers that result in different build numbers. kb4567523 results in 19041.331 for 19041 kb4567523 results in 19042.292 for 19042 when it should be 19042.331 Using the same KB for different builds: kb4568831 results in 19041/2.421 on 7/24/2020 kb4568831 results in 19041/2.423 on 7/31/2020 Does "B" mean beta release?
B is fot the second week of the month C for the third etc. B updates are the ones that come out every second Tuesday of each month on windows update.
Just to inform what is what, people who like to stay on the safe side can use the public on WU updates, the daredevils can go the preview route ps, MSFT published some info on the subject: https://forums.mydigitallife.net/th...20h1-2-vb_release.80763/page-191#post-1610553
There is nothing different between previous non-security CUs and the new Preview CUs, all contain previous security fixes + new quality fixes they just added "Preview" to the label welcome to Win 7/8.1 updating scheme, they got that "preview" term since 2016
That's what i'm saying. In the Win 7/8.1 era a "Preview update" was posted under the "Optional updates", you could choose it install it or not, and if everything was ok, it would become next month's stable update and posted on "Critical updates" on WU. Preview is beta testing for me (i have quoted a piece of their document saying that) otherwise there's no need to confuse people,if it's not a beta keep the naming and release as it is with every other update. Not to mention that a normal user cannot avoid it on his/hers machine. Why should everyone become guinea pigs. Of course you're gonna tell me that even the "stable" ones have proven more than often to be problematic updates many times and that everything is Beta. Microsoft, i love you but...
This is not beta. It's a quality update. Patch tuesday is a security update and all others are quality updates.
So, is it a "stable" update (even though non-preview updates often cause problems)? I find it odd to appear on WU.
This is stable no-security updates are always used in the next patch tuesday adding only security patches I rarely see other changes. And personally I never had any problems with them although I don't always use the latest updates. And I usually wait a few days to see if another update is coming out.