Microsoft’s announcement that hot patching in Windows Server 2025 will become a paid feature has generated a robust debate within the IT and security community. Hot patching—the ability to install updates without rebooting servers—has long been seen as a critical evolution in enterprise system...
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The story of Windows updates has been a saga of trade-offs: on one side lies the imperative to secure millions of endpoints against the latest threats; on the other, the productivity cost of disruption—those untimely reboots that have long haunted IT admins and end users alike. With the dawn of...
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Imagine a world where “Patch Tuesday” no longer triggers existential dread or frantic Googling of “Why did my server reboot at 3 a.m.?”—that world is fast approaching, courtesy of hotpatching for Windows Server 2025. The much-awaited feature, originally Azure-only, is now about to spill over...
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