One of the fixed annoyances of Windows 11 are the reboots after putting in updates. Sometimes a Windows PC even has to reboot a number of instances in a row till it lastly completes all of the updates. But this could quickly be a factor of the previous, no less than for safety updates categorized as “critical.”

In the Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058 for Windows Insider Canary/Dev testers, Microsoft is trialing “hot patching,” or the set up of Windows 11 updates whereas the system is working and with out restarting the pc. Microsoft has loads of expertise with scorching patching, because the Redmond-based firm already makes use of this patching course of for Windows servers and Xbox.

Microsoft is explicitly testing new options with the aforementioned construct 26058, that are deliberate for a “24H2” replace this autumn – no less than for conventional x86 computer systems. ARM-based computer systems wouldn’t obtain scorching patching till 2025.

Zac Bowden, a well known Windows skilled, assumes that Microsoft needs to make use of scorching patching for the month-to-month safety updates, however not for including new options. That’s comprehensible; a restore patch that closes a safety gap is actually simpler to include right into a working working system than a totally new characteristic or a brand new software. Bowden claims to have obtained his info from unspecified “sources.”

But scorching patching does not imply that you’ll by no means need to restart your Windows laptop once more. Bowden emphasizes that scorching patching relies on a fundamental replace that requires a reboot each few months. This would imply {that a} system restart for Windows 11 would solely be required in January, April, July and October as a way to set up the safety updates. In the opposite months, nevertheless, scorching patching would guarantee safe computer systems with no reboot. Unscheduled updates are after all nonetheless attainable at any time.

Bowden can not reply one essential query with the knowledge from his sources, nevertheless: Will all Windows 11 computer systems actually obtain scorching patching, or solely these with Windows 11 Enterprise or Education or Windows 365?

The official Microsoft help doc for Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26058 might be discovered at this link. However, there is no such thing as a point out of scorching patching.

This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.