Microsoft is about to end blue screen of death errors forever — by getting rid of the traditional blue screen. Instead, if ...

Hotpatching comes to Windows 11? As reported by Windows Latest, Microsoft accidentally published a support page on “Hotpatch for Windows,” referring to a feature that may or may not be coming ...

Microsoft has introduced a new update method for Windows 11 Enterprise users called "hotpatching," which, as reported by Windows Latest, hopes to reduce the number of required system reboots. This ...

"Hotpatching is available at no charge to preview now, but starting in July with the subscription launch, hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 will be offered at a subscription of $1.50 USD per ...

In the summer, users wishing to continue with their hotpatching upgrades will need to pay $1.50 a month per CPU core. Microsoft will charge for Windows Server hotpatching.

To enable hotpatching for Windows client devices, you will need a Microsoft subscription (i.e., Windows 11 Enterprise E3, E5, or F3, Windows 11 Education A3 or A5, or a Windows 365 Enterprise ...

The hotpatching preview can be accessed here. WSUS Deprecation In related news, Microsoft also announced that it is deprecating Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), nearly 20 years after it was ...

News. Windows Server vNext To Bring Hotpatching for All and Other Perks. By Kurt Mackie; 12/01/2023; Microsoft will be bringing a bunch of improvements to Windows Server in its "vNext" release ...

Currently, hotpatching is mainly a feature for virtual machines. Microsoft says it works by "patching the in-memory code of running processes without the need to restart the process" and without ...

Hotpatching is a process in which Windows components are updated while still in use by a running process. As you can imagine, this handy feature eliminates the need to reboot, ...

Hotpatching has been studied by hackers since its addition to Windows. At Black Hat 2006, Alex Sotirov did a talk on the risk of hotpatching and Alex Ionescu followed that up with a talk in 2013 ...

Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 will be generally available from July 1, 2025. This is a subscription model. Microsoft charges 1.50 US dollars per CPU core per month for the function.