It's been announced that Windows 11 will be serviced on a monthly basis, similar to Windows 10's infamous "Patch Tuesdays". What's the ideal service cadence for this OS?

Strategy & Architecture End-User Services & Collaboration Security & GRC +7 more

Updates should be released daily.9%

Updates should be released weekly56%

Updates should stay monthly.29%

Updates should be pushed quarterly.6%

Other (comment below)1%

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Assistant Director IT Auditor in Education, 10,001+ employees

Build secure code and Microsoft wouldn't have to update so often.

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CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees

Unfortunately, at the moment there's no such a thing 🙁 case in point - https://us-cert.cisa.gov/ncas/bulletins/sb21-200

CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees

This is far from trivial. All systems have flaws that need to be fixed when discovered, then there are feature upgrades and other changes, not to mention legacy codebase that may need to be maintained for compatibility. Regardless, one would have to carefully evaluate the use cases against the update cadence and other impacts, and to test thoroughly before adopting broadly.

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Assistant Director IT Auditor in Education, 10,001+ employees

UNIX OS don’t seems to have the same issues.

CTO in Software, 201 - 500 employees

Indeed, it has different issues 🙂 On a more serious note, while humans are writing software there will be no secure code, though some things might be more secure than others.

VP( Network Engineering and Delivery) in Telecommunication, 10,001+ employees

I do agree. Why can’t MS develop a robust OS that requires less updates

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