Microsoft Planning 10 Test Updates for Windows 7

According to Brandon LeBlanc (an employee at Microsoft), Windows 7 users will be receiving 10 updates to verify if Windows Update is working the way it should:

Starting this Tuesday (May 12th) we will release up to ten test updates to PCs running the Windows 7 RC in order to verify our ability to deliver and manage updating of Windows 7 in certain real-life scenarios. These updates do not deliver any new features or fixes. This is the second set of test updates we’ve released to test the updating mechanism for Windows 7 – the first set were released on February 24. For more information, see this post on the Microsoft Update Blog.

This is almost exactly the same as the previous test updates on February 24th, they do not introduce any new features or fixes and are just verifying that Windows Update works. One update will test a new update notification feature, though.  Some updates will automatically be installed, some will not. Windows 7 will prompt you before installing this update and provide you with more information about it. The new update notification feature provides detailed information about any available updates that need to be installed manually

For the updates that don’t install automatically, you will have to manually open Windows Update and install them. As said by Bandon LeBlanc, the updates will be released to all Windows 7 users running the RC client (build 7100) on May 12th, 2009.

~Kryticate

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