I'm not conflating anything - I even said I wasn't sure if they applied to Win2008, did you miss reading that? I was challenging the general claim that releases that require reboots don't occur more often than once a month.
Now if you were specifically addressing this for Win2008 R2, well I'll give you that. I was too lazy to spin that system up and dig through its update history.
The GENERAL assumption that the only time you need to reboot is once a month for patch tuesday isn't really accurate. Now for the SPECIFIC case of Win2008 R2, many years after its release, perhaps that is true.
And FWIW, thanks for your concern about my systems, but it is irrelevant and incorrect because you do not understand my particular operating environment. One side task I do is build VM's for everybody else in my group to use, so while I do not have auto-updates checked, I wind up getting all updates for every language and OS we are interested in.
As for "massive" differences in how server and desktops are patched - what would those be precisely? Perhaps you see fewer reboots than I do because you have less installed and fewer windows features enabled, not because of your supposed deep understanding on the "massive" differences between patching a server and desktop.
Now if you were specifically addressing this for Win2008 R2, well I'll give you that. I was too lazy to spin that system up and dig through its update history.
The GENERAL assumption that the only time you need to reboot is once a month for patch tuesday isn't really accurate. Now for the SPECIFIC case of Win2008 R2, many years after its release, perhaps that is true.
And FWIW, thanks for your concern about my systems, but it is irrelevant and incorrect because you do not understand my particular operating environment. One side task I do is build VM's for everybody else in my group to use, so while I do not have auto-updates checked, I wind up getting all updates for every language and OS we are interested in.
As for "massive" differences in how server and desktops are patched - what would those be precisely? Perhaps you see fewer reboots than I do because you have less installed and fewer windows features enabled, not because of your supposed deep understanding on the "massive" differences between patching a server and desktop.