{"id":27764,"date":"2020-06-18T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2605070"},"modified":"2020-06-18T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T15:00:00","slug":"microsoft-will-resume-optional-non-security-windows-10-updates-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/18\/microsoft-will-resume-optional-non-security-windows-10-updates-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will resume optional non-security Windows 10 updates in July"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo-705.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-title_mark@tp+ bc-gray-1 col-10-of-12@tl+\">\n<div class=\"t-d7@m- t-d4@tp t-d3-b@tl t-d2@d mt-15 mt-25@tp c-gray-3 c-gray-6@m-\">They will be released every third week of the month.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section id=\"engadget-article-meta-bar\" class=\"o-meta_bar@tl+          mt-35 mt-20@m-\" data-ylk=\"sec:articlemetabar;itc:0;\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+\">\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/o.aolcdn.com\/images\/dims?thumbnail=640%2C&amp;quality=95&amp;image_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fs.yimg.com%2Fos%2Fcreatr-images%2F2019-11%2F9f16ceb0-ff1c-11e9-ab2b-ffa8217cdf8a&amp;client=amp-blogside-v2&amp;signature=153f9ed04e94d084054c47b25cce47caac799524\" alt=\"Redmond, WA, USA - April 15, 2017: The Microsoft headquarters campus in Redmond. Microsoft is one of the world&rsquo;s largest computer software, hardware and video gaming companies.\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid@tl+__cell col-12-of-12@tp col-5-of-12@tl+ vm\">\n<p>Microsoft will soon start rolling out non&mdash;security updates again, just as the world starts loosening lockdown orders and we all get used to a new normal. The tech giant&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2020-03-24-microsoft-pauses-windows-updates.html\" data-rapid_p=\"1\" data-v9y=\"1\">paused<\/a>&nbsp;optional Windows updates back in March in response to the pandemic, so it could focus on security patches that will keep the platform secure and ensure everyone working from home won&rsquo;t have to deal with any security bugs. Now, it has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/techcommunity.microsoft.com\/t5\/windows-it-pro-blog\/resuming-optional-windows-10-and-windows-server-non-security\/ba-p\/1471429\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a>&nbsp;that it will resume non-security updates in July 2020, but only for Windows 10 and Windows Server version 1809 and later.<\/p>\n<p>These optional updates will now be called &ldquo;Preview&rdquo; releases to make it clear that they&rsquo;re non-security rollouts that don&rsquo;t get installed automatically. Further, Microsoft will only be&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-to-resume-in-july-delivery-of-optional-windows-10-cumulative-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">releasing<\/a>&nbsp;them every third week of the month to simplify things for companies, which could still be operating with a skeleton IT crew. The company will continue releasing security updates every second week of the month as part of Patch Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-to-resume-in-july-delivery-of-optional-windows-10-cumulative-updates\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/microsoft-to-resume-in-july-delivery-of-optional-windows-10-cumulative-updates\/<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Mariella Moon<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Mariella Moon<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4001-logo-705.png\" alt=\"\">They will be released every third week of the month. Microsoft will soon start rolling out non&mdash;security updates again, just as the world starts loosening lockdown orders and we all get used to a new normal. The tech giant&nbsp;paused&nbsp;optional Windows updates back in March in response to the pandemic, so it could focus on security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/18\/microsoft-will-resume-optional-non-security-windows-10-updates-in-july\/\">Continue reading <span>Microsoft will resume optional non-security Windows 10 updates in July<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/18\/microsoft-will-resume-optional-non-security-windows-10-updates-in-july\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft will resume optional non-security Windows 10 updates in July - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/18\/microsoft-will-resume-optional-non-security-windows-10-updates-in-july\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Microsoft will resume optional non-security Windows 10 updates in July - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"They will be released every third week of the month. 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