Keeping the devices updated is necessary, but not always simple. The experience varies a lot from platform to platform and is in Windowsthe operating system of Microsoft For PCs, where experience is more fragmented. That is, there are many things to update and are done through different paths. Microsoft wants to end this situation and that’s why he is working on what he calls Windows Update Orchestration Platform.
Windows Update is an old acquaintance of any Windows user. Microsoft threw it in 1998 with Windows 98then only a website from which the user manually downloaded system updates. The thing improved three years later, in Windows XPwith the introduction of automatic updates, and with Windows 10 They became mandatory. But Those that Windows Update manages are limited (consumption apps, business apps, drivers – if you want the last ones – and others are left), And that’s what Microsoft wants to change with its new update orchestration platform.
‘Nowadays, Business applications, Windows, Visual Studio and other products components are updated independently. Creating, maintaining and improving update orchestration entails costs. In addition, with dozens of applications that use their own update mechanisms, users have Fragmented experiences‘, explains the company on its Windows It Pro Blog page.
With this system, Microsoft provides the developers and product equipment that create applications and management tools An API to integrate your updates with Windows Update and that, both these and the users, have a consistent experience When updating.
Microsoft promises Benefits for developers As an eco -efficient update programming, simplified notifications experience, applications updates history, support for administrative policies to establish temporary deadlines, optimization of problems to problems, compatibility with the types of common application packaging and the automation of future improvements on the platform.
Currently, it is Available as an Preview for developers They want to join, without dates for deployment among Windows 11 users. Windows 10whose support ends next October, except for users who pay to extend it, He will not receive it.
Will it be a complete solution for Windows updates? Since it depends on developers to join the platform, It is unlikely, but it should be an improvement for many users who do not resort to much specialized software.