- Microsoft has a large vision of the Windows update to provide updates for all software installed on the PC
- This is mainly intended for the business world to start, but there is no reason why consumers do not benefit as well
- Developers should be convinced to connect their applications to the new Microsoft unified delivery platform, although
Microsoft provides that Windows 11 manages all software updates via the Windows update system, or this seems to be the idea of the future.
The penis spotted a Microsoft blog article which described a vision of “the unified future for application updates on Windows”, as written by product manager Angie Chen.
Although it is an article on the IT PRO blog, and as such, it is targeting administrators and IT organizations, because Microsoft advances in this direction, there is no reason why consumers do not benefit from them so.
This is surely the plan, even if it is not explicitly mentioned, because the post announces that a private overview of the new system is now launched, that any developer of applications can join to start preparing your software for the new world of updates of Microsoft.
In the current state of things, Windows Update provides relevant updates to the operating system itself (of course) and related frames, as well as the drivers. Regarding individual applications – or software suites – you depend on the developer to deliver them through their own mechanisms.
Microsoft wants to change this by introducing a “Windows-Native update orchestration platform” which allows any applications to use the Windows update to provide fixes for its software alongside regular Windows 11 updates.
As Microsoft explains, there are several advantages to work in this way, the least of which is that it maintains simple and rationalized things to get all your updates from a single source.
In addition, you will be able to display the history of all updates on your entire PC via update history in the Windows 11 parameter application. In addition, developers will be able to use the powers of the operating system in terms of deciding the moment of applying updates, such as obedience to the temporal windows of the user or the administrator for the update, for example.
Analysis: a reasonable path to follow
All this makes sense, and the convenience of combining all the updates under a single center managed by Windows itself surely takes a step forward.
After all, with updates dependent on the delivery methods of individual software developers, it can be easy to delay, especially if the update mechanism is hidden somewhere and does not occur automatically. Or indeed, if you have not run software for centuries, it could hang out in the background in a miserably unlikely state.
With Windows Update that managed all of this, you would be above your software updates in a coherent way, at least in theory. That said, cynics could be quick to jump on the reliability of Windows Update.
The failed updates are not exactly rare and are reported with a certain regularity. However, do not forget that these are updates for Windows 11 himself – the more complex and knotty upgrades – and the small application updates will not suffer such wrinkles. And if they do it or not, will probably be due to developers anyway, to a large extent.
It should be noted that you automatically get updates on Windows applications with software installed via the Microsoft Store, but of course, far from each developer wants to use this store.
Do you worry about supporting applications and certain software left out? Each base must be covered, with the support of all types of current applications (not only the own creations of Microsoft, such as MSIX applications), as indicated in the blog post.
However, there could still be a socket here, namely that it is up to software developers to use the new Microsoft platform. And nothing forces them to connect to the system, so they will bother?
This is the question of several million dollars, but from my point of view, it all seems a sufficiently sensible idea. Although this can be a plan initially targeting the business world, I can imagine a wider evolution towards this Windows update model for all kinds of application developers. And like more jumps, others could be convinced to follow …
