- Hotpatch updates for Windows Server 2025 will be loaded
- Companies will pay $ 1.50 per CPU nucleus each month
- 12 The annual restarts become four with the service
Microsoft explores an option so that customers can pay monthly fees to avoid restarting regular machines after revealing the details of an option to come last year.
Redmond had previously made a hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 available in preview in 2024, but before its general availability on July 1, 2025, the company confirmed that it would have cost.
In summer, users wishing to continue their Hotpatch upgrades will have to pay $ 1.50 per month per CPU nucleus.
Microsoft will charge Windows Server Hotpatching
To be compatible, servers must be Windows Server 2025 standard or Datacenter Edition, and connected to Azure Arc. Azure (Azure Iaas, Azure Local and Azure Stack) editions of Windows Server will continue to obtain a free hotpathing.
Microsoft has also added that users registered in the preview program will have to unsubscribe before June 30 if they wish not to continue in the paid plan.
As part of the schedule, the machines will have four basic updates per year in January, April, July and October, each requiring a restart. Two of the three months per quarter will consist of pots-de-hot-updates that do not require the system restart. This is equivalent to eight hotpatches per year against four restart updates – a considerable savings for those who pay the monthly costs of $ 1.50 per processor core.
Windows Server’s product marketing director Janine Patrick, and the main director of Artem Pronichkin, explained that sometimes a non -hotpatch update will have to be pushed during a hotpatch period for security reasons, but for the most part, the calendar should remain on the right track.
“Hotpatching can save a lot of time and facilitate the drawbacks of a” traditional Tuesday “, they added.
