Microsoft has been aggressive in pushing its latest Windows 10 operating system by "forcing" previous versions of Windows to upgrade. Since then, the company has been updating Windows 10 regularly and steadily, but the company wasn't transparent regarding what it updates and why.
Microsoft's Windows 10 was released on July 2015 as a free upgrade to previous Windows users. When it comes to updating, average Windows don't actually care about what Microsoft is doing. To them, Windows is a well-known product coming from a well-known company. So updates are always welcome and are regarded to benefit the existing.
But some others, the fact came as an opposite. These people are concerned. To them, constant updates should mean something and they want to know. Because Microsoft rarely releases detailed release notes, and the updates are often applied automatically behind the scenes, those people are left to wonder on their own.
To coincide with Patch Tuesday, or the monthly security patches by Microsoft, the company announces a change to how it pushes updates to Windows 10. The company starts to detail a log to every Windows 10 updates in effort to become more transparent to its users.
We're committed to our customers and strive to incorporate their feedback, both in how we deliver Windows as a service and the info we provide about Windows 10. In response to this feedback, we're providing more details about the Windows 10 updates we deliver through Windows Update. You'll see a summary of important product developments included in each update, with links to more details. This page will be regularly refreshed, as new updates are released.
Windows 10’s update history's page goes live as of February 9th, 2016, with the release of Windows 10 build 10586.104, CU 9, KB 3135173. The list should be updated with each system patch and OS changes. The page that includes every update to the operating system has a historical record users can browse to.
A screenshot of the February 9th update log is shown below:
"After listening to feedback regarding the level of disclosure for Windows 10 updates, we decided to implement a new system for communicating updates to the operating system," said a Microsoft spokesperson. "Today we are rolling out the Windows 10 update history site, a hub for the release notes that will accompany each update and serve as a historical record of prior release notes."
The "feedback" here that Microsoft refers to is practically the complaints from Windows 10 users who wanted to know more about the operating system and more about what the company was about to do. Those people basically come from IT and software developers, system administrators and power users.
By listening to complaints, Microsoft is addressing its biggest hurdle to Windows 10 adoption: the change log.
As for the time being, Microsoft that released Windows 10 as-a-service, is testing new builds and new updates for the operating system under the codename Redstone.