{"id":67233,"date":"2015-12-02T14:17:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T19:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/?p=67233"},"modified":"2016-11-19T17:11:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T22:11:24","slug":"microsoft-kb3112336-kb3112343-improve-upgrade-windows-10-older-versions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pureinfotech.com\/microsoft-kb3112336-kb3112343-improve-upgrade-windows-10-older-versions\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft delivers KB3112336 &#038; KB3112343 to improve upgrade to Windows 10 from older versions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t upgraded to Windows 10, Microsoft is now rolling out a new update for Windows 8.1, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2012 R2 to deliver improvements to the Windows Update feature that should help to make the upgrade to Windows 10 a little more painless.<\/p>\n<p>The update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2 is described as <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3112336\" target=\"_blank\">KB3112336<\/a> and the update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 is described as <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3112343\" target=\"_blank\">KB3112343<\/a>, and they are available immediately through Windows Update as an optional update.<\/p>\n<p>According the description, the update &#8220;enables support for additional upgrade scenarios from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10, and provides a smoother experience when you have to retry an operating system upgrade because of certain failure conditions. 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Tell us your experience in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3112336\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft (KB3112336)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/en-us\/kb\/3112343\" target=\"_blank\">KB3112343<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.winbeta.org\/news\/windows-7-and-windows-8-1-update-offers-smoother-windows-10-upgrade-experience\" target=\"_blank\">WinBeta<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is now rolling out an optional update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 to improve the upgrade process to Windows 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[72,2540,2490,2515],"class_list":["post-67233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-windows","tag-update","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-7","tag-windows-8"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Microsoft delivers KB3112336 &amp; 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