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Server 2025. They upsell it as a subscription because they can. Before that it was also available in Azure. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog
by mapontosevenths 11mo ago
Server 2025. They upsell it as a subscription because they can. Before that it was also available in Azure.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/2025/04/24/tired-of-all-the-restarts-get-hotpatching-for-windows-server https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/blog/2025/04/...
- kenjackson 11mo agoIt is security patches only. To take all the other patches you do need to reboot, which is why it still has quarterly reboots. No real OS has solved this problem.
- mapontosevenths 11mo agoA 90% answer is better than no answer, which is what we've had for 40 years now. Linux only requires rebooting for kernel updates, and with kpatch not even that.
- 1718627440 11mo agoNote that you can also only reboot the kernel, but keep userspace.