Microsoft has announced it will require paid subscriptions for Windows Server 2025 hotpatching, a service that enables admins to install security updates without restarting.

Redmond reckons $1.50/core/month hotpatch service is worth it to avoid eight Patch Tuesday scrambles each year ...

Installing updates without restarting has been available for testing in Windows Server 2025 for months. This will cost extra ...

Microsoft will transition Windows Server 2025 hotpatching from free preview to a paid subscription model starting July 1, ...

Redmond had previously made hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 available in preview in 2024, but ahead of its general ...

Microsoft has unveiled a new paid subion service for hotpatching in Windows Server 2025, marking the end of its preview phase. This feature allows software updates without requiring reboots, a ...

With the availability of hotpatching features, Windows Server 2025 users can install updates without the need to reboot the ...

Now, Janine Patrick, Windows Server product marketing manager, and Artem Pronichkin, a senior program manager at Microsoft, have confirmed that the hotpatch system for Windows Server 2025, which has ...

Enabling hotpatching via Intune admin center (Microsoft ... Microsoft first added Windows Hotpatch support to Windows Server Azure Edition core virtual machines, making it generally available ...

Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025, made available in preview in 2024, will become generally available as a subscription service on July 1st, 2025. One of the key updates in the latest release of ...