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Understand Windows as a service

Understand Windows as a service

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Understand Windows as a service

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- [Instructor] With Windows 10, Microsoft introduced a new service in concept called a Windows as a Service. This is a radical shift from the traditional way of a new version of Windows being released every few years, will now see, a continuous rollout of updates and changes. Effectively, there will not be a Windows 11 version. Instead, we'll have an incremental series of micro updates every few months. These are broken into two types of updates. Feature updates, will provide new functionality are scheduled for March and September each year. And they have incremental version numbers, such as 1903 or 1909, representing the year and month of release, and Quality updates, which provide security patches and fixes which are released at least once a month. Rolling out improvements on a regular cadence means Microsoft can respond quickly to new advances in technology. Also, providing quality updates regularly means that…

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