Windows 10 users not getting any updates this month

Feb 16, 2017 08:11 GMT  ·  By

This month’s delayed Patch Tuesday cycle also impacts Windows 10 users, as no new cumulative updates would be shipped before the March patching cycle taking place on the 14th.

Windows 10 cumulative updates usually launch on Patch Tuesday, as they also include security fixes, and new ones were expected to be shipped on February 14. But because the company decided to hold back the release until March, no new cumulative updates are getting the go-ahead either, so Windows 10 users now have to wait until March 14 to get them.

On the good side, if you’re already running the latest cumulative updates, your system is up to date, as this is the purpose of these patches in the first place. Cumulative updates include all the previously released fixes, so installing the most recent one always brings a PC up to date.

Why people blame cumulative updates

Cumulative updates were blamed by some users for the delayed Patch Tuesday, as there were voices that Microsoft decided to hold back the entire update rollout because of issues that were experienced with them. We’re hearing this wasn’t the case, though, and more like Microsoft was hit by infrastructure problems, as the company migrated to a new system that abandoned single patches in February.

And yet, it’s no wonder there are people blaming cumulative updates because they’ve been pretty buggy lately, causing not only installation issues, but also other bugs that were experienced by users who actually managed to deploy them.

Without cumulative updates this month, Windows 10 users have to wait until March to get improvements, just like is the case of all the other Windows users. In the meantime, some other experimental cumulative updates could be shipped to Windows insiders for testing purposes, but this typically happens a couple of weeks before the public launch.

For the moment, make sure that you are already running the latest cumulative updates for Windows 10 and updating to the Anniversary Update is a more effective way to remain secure without patches, as this OS version can block zero-day exploits thanks to its built-in mitigation features.