Microsoft Releases Updates KB4457144, KB4457129 for Windows 7 and Windows 8.1

In addition to cumulative updates for Windows 10, Microsoft has also released new security patches for Windows 7 and 8.1 on this month’s Patch Tuesday cycle.

This time, however, it’s not quite a typical Patch Tuesday rollout, as the updates shipped to older Windows versions are entirely about security improvements.

On past Patch Tuesday cycles, Microsoft used to release updates for Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2012 R2, and Windows 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 with both security and non-security fixes. These updates, however, came alongside security-only packages that were distributed separately.

This month, all these Windows versions are getting only security improvements, and the same changelog is being used for both the standard updates and the security-only releases.

On Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1... (read more)

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