Patch Watch: Microsoft starts the Win7 countdown and all the latest about this month’s patches

Susan Bradley steps through Microsoft’s latest death knells for Win7, what we know – and what we don’t.

There’s also a lot of patching toil and trouble:

• SHA-2 support for Win7 in a Servicing Stack update (too early to install)
• Win10 cumulative updates (ditto)
• Win7 and 8.1 monthly rollups (ditto, unless you’re using Internet Explorer)

Our Patch Lady continues with a cautionary tale of too-cheap-to-be-true Office 2019, puzzlement over this month’s dearth of Office fixes, and a roundup of Japanese kalendar Keystone Kops reruns.

Details in this week’s AskWoody Plus Newsletter 16.10.0, out this morning to AskWoody Plus Members.

Patch Lady – Access gets beat up again

I was updating the master patch list tonight and spotted that there’s a new known issue listed on all of the Windows patches in regard to Access:

Last time it was Access 97 format, this time it’s Access 95 format.  Apparently we keep old databases around for a long time.

It’s expected to be fixed in late February.

January Patch Podcast

By Susan Bradley

January is a busy and confusing month for Windows patching. Win10 Version 1809 is being rolled out — again. And we also enter the last year of support for the venerable Windows 7.

Windows 10 users should check out Susan Bradley’s January Patching Podcast. And if you’re one of the many still on Windows 7, you can download Susan’s Master Patch spreadsheet.

Patch Watch Podcast: The latest update problems

In our first Patch Watch podcast for 2019, Susan Bradley describes some networking issues caused by two recent Windows 7 updates.