14 DAY TRIAL // With Windows 10, Microsoft is changing the traditional Windows model and goes towards Windows as a Service, which is a new concept that would bring users updates at a faster pace, when they are ready.
In a slide presented by Microsoft and spotted by DigitalTrends, Microsoft explains why Windows as a Service is a such a great project, pointing out the main advantages that it brings to consumers, business users, and special systems.
Windows as a Service will install updates on consumer devices “as they arrive,” the company explains, which is pretty much another way of saying that as soon as development of new updates is completed, they are automatically shipped to your computer, so you won’t have to wait for a specific release date to get them.
This means that Windows as a Service would help “keeping hundreds of millions of consumers up to date,” Microsoft adds, and “the large and diverse user base should help drive quality of the OS updates.”
And last but not least, for consumers, BYOD devices should also be up to date and secure, the software firm guarantees, so Patch Tuesday would become a much more effective concept with Windows 10.
Business users would get fully working updates
On the other hand, business users should no longer be afraid that they are getting updates that do not work as expected, and Microsoft explains that they would be allowed to update their devices after features are validated on the market. In other words, consumers would more or less become the testing pool for Microsoft before business users get the updates.
Windows as a Service would also arrive on special systems, and Microsoft says that they would receive regular security updates, control with WSUS, and no new functionality on long-term servicing branch.
Overall, it’s pretty clear that the biggest change here is the way updates are delivered to devices, as Microsoft plans to focus a lot more on frequent updates that would be shipped exactly when they’re ready.