January 2019 Patch Tuesday takes place this week

Jan 7, 2019 08:18 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft will release a new batch of cumulative updates for Windows 10 devices tomorrow as part of the company’s monthly Patch Tuesday cycle.

This week’s rollout is the first of 2019, and in addition to Windows 10, Microsoft will also fix security vulnerabilities in the other operating systems that it still supports, including Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.

At the same time, Windows 7 officially enters the last 12 months of support before its demise in January 2020, so users are still running this OS version are recommended to begin planning the upgrade to a supported Windows release.

As far as Windows 10 is concerned, all versions shipped so far would get updates tomorrow, though it’s important to have in mind that only the Fall Creators Update (version 1709) and newer are getting security updates for Home and Pro SKUs.

The Education and Enterprise editions will continue to receive security updates even for older versions, including the original build and up to the Windows 10 Creators Update (version 1703).

October update getting new fixes

The most recent version of Windows 10 is the October 2018 Update, also referred to as version 1809. The rollout of this update is currently under way, and Microsoft is making it available via Windows Update for all devices. However, users can download it manually from Windows Update, and it’s believed that tomorrow’s release could mark a new milestone for the automatic push.

More devices could get the October update tomorrow together with the rest of the security updates, so if you want to delay the feature update, you are recommended to configure every device right now.

As always, we’ll detail each security update individually when the rollout begins, and we’ll keep an eye on reports pointing to potential installation issues. Cumulative updates will require system reboots, so IT admins should save the work on each machine before patching.