With 20 years of Patch Tuesdays, Microsoft will use AI to build future Windows

The renowned Patch Tuesday update tradition turned 20 this week and Microsoft, the mastermind behind it, celebrated it with a lengthy blog post discussing the history of the practice, its impact on the tech world, and how it had gone to become an industry standard.

Created from a 2002 company-wide initiative, Patch Tuesday has become a well-known industry standard, keeping not just Windows but the people, companies and institutions that depend on it protected and productive for 20 years.

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The Redmond-based tech giant reminisced about the evolution of Patch Tuesdays in different Windows versions, from Windows XP, to Windows 7, 8, 10, and 11, with specific highlights and important key moments.

Moving forward, Microsoft will implement a 4-point structure to Patch Tuesday, which is a strategy based on predictability, simplicity, agility, and transparency. Similar to the recently-announced Secure Future Initiative, Patch Tuesday will function on this strategy to deliver the best Windows update solutions to users everywhere.

AI will be an essential part of the next 20 years of Patch Tuesdays

Microsoft will continue to deliver monthly Patch Tuesdays updates, as the company will make use of technologies across Azure Fleet and Windows Server Azure edition to build future patches in a rapid manner.

However, it seems that the Redmond-based tech giant will also employ AI, alongside new talent to deliver secure and reliable update experiences to users everywhere.

We’re also investing in new AI technology and talent, as well as in leadership and cross-team partnerships, to ensure that we can keep you protected and productive for the next 20 years of Windows.

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This means that future iterations of Windows won’t be just AI-based experiences, but also AI-provided experiences, which makes sense, considering the situation.

We’ve already speculated on how Microsoft gives us all the hints that the future Windows will use AI more than anything, and we’ve also recently covered a technology that would make Copilot or any AI Microsoft releases provide a highly personalized experience to multiple users using the same Windows device.

Now, that Microsoft confirms that AI will be an integral and essential part of developing future Windows updates, sort of confirms what we’re all thinking at this moment: AI is not just the future, but it’s also the imminent future of Windows.

So if you’re a Windows user, you might want to get used to AI.