Updated: May 31, 2023 (March 27, 2023)
Analyst ReportWindows 11 Mar. 2023 Nonsecurity Update
- A Windows 11 nonsecurity update delivers small improvements, including a search box on the taskbar to access the ChatGPT-enabled Bing search engine.
- Organizations can use Windows Update for Business to defer some parts of the update, but only until the general availability of the planned 23H2 Feature Update.
A nonsecurity update to Windows 11 was made generally available alongside the Mar. 2023 Quality (security) Update. Although users may find at least one useful feature included in the update, these changes could have waited for the annual Feature Update to avoid training and help-desk calls. To better manage the impact of random updates to the Windows client OS, organizations can use Windows Update for Business to defer (but not permanently avoid) availability of the update until the release of the 23H2 annual Feature Update. However, there is no guarantee all features in the interim release honor the defer policy, and there is no guidance on which features might slip through.
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