Security News > 2022 > July > Take the day off: Windows Autopatch is live and can even fix cloudy PCs

Microsoft's promised service to enable automatic patching of Windows has gone live.

The software giant on Monday announced Windows Autopatch is up and running.

"Because the Autopatch service has such a broad footprint, and pushes updates around the clock, we are able to detect potential issues among an incredibly diverse array of hardware and software configurations," states Microsoft's go-live announcement.

Or a patch could brick or bork your kit, as happened when Patch Tuesday for June 2022 broke Wi-Fi and Windows on Arm for some users, and when the Windows 10 May 2022 update caused authentication failures.

The go-live post acknowledges that some shops will already have automated and mature patch deployment practices in place, and that Autopatch may therefore have little appeal.

One new development that's already landed is the applicability of Autopatch to Microsoft's Windows 365 Cloud PCs. .

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