Microsoft February 2, 2016 updates summarized

On February 2., 2016, Microsoft has released several updates for Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Here is an overview, what has been released so far.

Windows 7 SP1: KB2952664, KB2977759, KB3135445

Microsoft has released 3 updates for Windows 7 SP1 to improve compatibility for Windows 10 Upgrade.

• KB2952664: Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7; This update helps Microsoft make improvements to the current operating system in order to ease the upgrade experience to the latest version of Windows.
• KB3135445: Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: February 2016; This article describes an update that contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.
• KB2977759: Compatibility update for Windows 7 RTM; This update performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. These diagnostics help determine whether compatibility issues may be encountered when the latest Windows operating system is installed. This update will help Microsoft and its partners ensure compatibility for customers who want to install the latest Windows operating system.

If you don't intend to upgrade Windows 7 to Windows 10, hide those updates listed above in Windows Update.

Windows 8.1: KB2976978; KB3135449; KB3123862

These Updates for Windows 8.1 also improves compatibility for upgrading to Windows 10.

• KB2976978: Compatibility update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 8; This update performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. These diagnostics help determine whether compatibility issues may be encountered when the latest Windows operating system is installed. This update will help Microsoft and its partners ensure compatibility for customers who want to install the latest Windows operating system.
• KB3135449: Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: February 2016; This update contains some improvements to Windows Update Client in Windows 8.1, Windows RT 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2.
• KB3123862: Updated capabilities to upgrade Windows 8.1 and Windows 7; The update adds capabilities to some computers that lets users easily learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10.

If you don't intend to upgrade Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, hide those updates listed above in Windows Update.

Windows 10: KB3136562 released and withdrawn

Microsoft has also released KB3136562 for Windows 10 Version 1511 – but the update has been pulled after a few hours. Here is the old description:

Cumulative Update for Windows 10: February 2, 2016

Windows 10 updates are cumulative. Therefore, this package contains all previously released fixes. If you have installed previous updates, only the new fixes that are contained in this package will be downloaded and installed to your computer. If you install a language pack after you install this update, you must reinstall this update. Therefore, we recommend that you install any language packs that you need before you install this update. For more information, see Add language packs to Windows. For a list of the files that are provided in this cumulative update, download the file information for cumulative update 3124263.

Windows 10 scheduled upgrade

Microsoft has also published a now KB-Article KB3140166 describing the changed scheduled upgrade in Windows 10. If you've reserved Windows 10, but not upgraded yet, you may get a notification that your upgrade is ready and will be installed in five days:

Your Windows 10 upgrade is here
Your PC will upgrade on: <date and time>

Closing this window without selecting either Upgrade now or Reschedule will result in the upgrade happening at the scheduled time stated in the notification. If you don't want to upgrade at this time, choose Reschedule. You can then choose to either reschedule the upgrade or cancel the upgrade.

Windows 10: Intel HD Graphic 520 driver issues

Users of systems with Intel HD Graphic 520 are receiving a new Intel graphics driver update. According to reports in German HP support forum this driver update are causing serious trouble. Software, that is using DirectX and / or OpenGL doesn't show graphics anymore. A solution may be to block the new Intel HD Graphic 520 driver using the tool offered at KB3073930 and rollback to a previous driver.