Microsoft Issues An Update To Windows Update

Microsoft this week released an update to in order to strengthen its Windows Update/Microsoft Update client security for certain Windows users.This update is specifically designed for users of Windows 8, Windows RT, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.After installing the update is to establish a secure connection between the client and the Windows Update / Microsoft Update service, according to Microsoft's announcement.In addition, it is to cure,infrastructure used by the client.The update will automatically install for those individuals or organizations who have placed their Windows Update/Microsoft Update client for automatic installations. It is not clear when the update will come.Microsoft suggested it will gradually roll out.

Organizations,the Windows Server Update Services to have to control their Windows updates for this update waiting to be available as a standalone package, according to Microsoft Knowledge Base article associated with the update.Those individuals and organizations that newest of Microsoft's flagship operating systems may have already received the update. For example, Microsoft's April update for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 already includes the improvements to the Windows Update / Microsoft Update client.

In other update news, deleted until Microsoft a two secrets in this week that IT professionals can be at a loss. One of the Internet Explorer concerned, the IT experts were told to dive an upgrade message in a separate tab after installing Microsoft Update June secrets. The other secret affected Windows 8.1, which sometimes failed to report its software version correctly. These two questions have been discussed recently in the list-serv patch management.org for IT professionals.

IE Welcome Tab Issue

The Internet Explorer update pop tab is by design, but is believed to be due to a professional confusing for end users. The pop tab appears after the June update is for users of IE 10 in Windows 7 and IE 9 users is applied in Windows 7 or Windows Vista, according to Microsoft's blog.The blog offers some tips on how to remove this call welcome tab in IE. It can be removed either by a change in the Windows registry or clicking a Group Policy preference for end users.

Windows 8.1 Version Reporting

The second mystery concerned Windows 8.1, which sometimes reports that it is Windows 8. It turns out that Microsoft routinely lies about its Windows versions. Chris Jackson, worldwide lead for application compatibility at Microsoft, explained in a blog post that Microsoft lied about Windows 7, which was actually Windows 6.1. Windows 8 was actually Windows 6.2, he added.Windows 8.1 will tell you that it's running Windows 8.0 unless a certain manifes is added. Until you put in this manifest, we'll tell you that you're running on Windows 8.0 (6.2). Once you do, we'll stop lying and call ourselves Windows 8.1 (6.3).