Coming Tuesday (13 February 2018) Windows 10 users will receive the standard monthly cumulative updates, which will include security fixes and performance improvements.
This month, however, Microsoft will also release Specter Variant 2 patches, as Intel has recently released revised updates for Skylake chips.
Microsoft will include these updates in Windows updates.
Let us also mention that the new updates come after a huge fiasco that happened in January and are expected to correct the issues that caused previous patches.
In January of 2018, Patch Tuesday did not release any substantive updates to Windows 10 because Microsoft tried to address Meltdown and Specter vulnerabilities.
Updates released for some AMD systems were withdrawn shortly after the company discovered a number of issues that caused operating boot damage.
Although problems have been resolved since then, there are still users who are trying to install the updates or that their computers are still experiencing various problems and instabilities.
So 2018 February updates are supposed to resolve these issues.
Installing cumulative updates on Windows 10 systems is reported to be a challenge, as many of these patches cause problems, installation failures, or those known to all Windows users, BSODs.
We'll see what happens with this month's updates. Before you try updating your system, wait a while to hear the results from the bold ones who will update first ....
Unfortunately buggy updates are something that tends to become fashionable especially with the company's aggregate updates…
George is still wondering what he is doing here….
