Microsoft’s Windows Update offers a convenient way to update not only Windows but certain Microsoft products. However, that is where the convenience begins and ends. Want to update a third-party app? Sorry, you typically have to do that through each individual program. If only you could update Windows and all your apps using a single method. Well, that very plan is now in the works.
Windows Update orchestration platform
In a blog post published Tuesday, Microsoft product manager Angie Chen described the unified future for Windows updates, now in the preview phase. Known as the “Windows Update orchestration platform,” the new service aims to provide developers and product teams with an API that allows their apps to join the Windows Update…