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- Is MS too busy fixing (truck loads (???) of) bugs in Win 10 and therefore ignores Win 7 & Win 8 ((a bit) too much) ?
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with Win7 main support already wound-up and the extended life cycle ending in around 18 months there simply is no economic benefit in touching Win7.
and if it's one thing we know about MS, everything is revenue driven.
like XP, they would be hoping these users jump on-board the Win10 wagon. all they have to do is just wake up each day and that time gets a little closer with each sunrise.
- @ mta: I fear you're right that MS doesn't care too much about Win 7 anymore. Especially in the light of the experiences/info below (I am still busy updating/configuring my freshly installed Win 7 SP1).
- After installing the "Convenience Update" (of may 2016) Windows Update continues to behave in a strange way. Windows Update simply won't offer the latest "Quality & Security Rollup" update. I think I'll have to manually download and install that one update.
- Also installed the latest "Cumulative Update for IE 11" and now that extra pop-up warning for "Active content" doesn't show up any more in the IE window. Odd, very odd.
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- After installing the "Convenience Update" (of may 2016) Windows Update continues to behave in a strange way. Windows Update simply won't offer the latest "Quality & Security Rollup" update. I think I'll have to manually download and install that one update.
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i think you going wrong with that you installed convenience update and after this you became immetialy the latest quality & security rollup blablabla from xx.yy.zzzz...
perhaps this going step by step after each new offered installed ones from ms -> after a restart and updatesearch again maybe ms will give you the next suitable quality and security rollup wich is fit for your w7.
- Even before installing the "Convenience Update" (of may 2016) WU didn't recommend the latest "Rollup Update(s)". See my 2nd post on march 25 in this thread.
- And this kind of hassle is precisely why a new Service Pack and follow-ups with "Cumulative Updates" would make life much easier, even for MS. MS thinks that those "Rollups" will simplify the updating process but I disagree. My story in this thread (convincingly) proves that, IMO.
1) This is odd, very odd. When I ran Windows Update a few days ago it recommended the "Roll Up" update for April 2018 but the size of that rollup was smaller than the previous "Roll up" of March 2018. Is MS about to change its update policy (again) ? Is MS working on a new Service Pack ? Or are/were there one or more (new) bugs in the previous "Roll Up Update" (march 2018) ?
2) Then I ran WU today again and it now recommended (among 5 others) to install (Surprise #1) a "Cumulative Security Update for IE 11" from (Surprise #2) september 2016 !!! And 3 of those recommended (security) updates were from (surprise #3) 2014 and 2016 (twice) !!!
(I must say that I ran the build-in "CleanUp" tool between 1) and 2). But I don't think that it should matter).
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2) Then I ran WU today again and it now recommended (among 5 others) to install (Surprise #1) a "Cumulative Security Update for IE 11" from (Surprise #2) september 2016 !!! And 3 of those recommended (security) updates were from (surprise #3) 2014 and 2016 (twice) !!!
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the cumulative updates are normally for linear-install in direction of future - it seems work in direction of past too
i think with the smaller rollup there are a few things deliver later for your personal kind of windows - if i remember me darkly you have write in the past you installed security updates for windows and security updates for ie11 separatly + preview rollups... perhaps there are some of the ie-updates out of date (in your update-collection) that are replaced? and windows was so smart to change this kind of older update-versions perhaps you have become the "best" securityagency-updates of ie11
- This is odd, very odd !!! Ran Windows Update (manually) today and suddenly (??) it recommended a "Cumulative Security Update for IE 11" (KB 4483187) for the first time this year. Is there a relation to the news that MS is about to make MAJOR changes to their Edge browser ? See link below.
For whatever reason they feed my system the updates close to late afternoon going into the evening, when it updated the other day it was nearly mid-night.