However, it will require a monthly subscription, priced at $1.50 per CPU core. Hot patching has been available for years in the Windows Server Datacenter edition. Microsoft says the Xbox team used ...

Microsoft is set to start charging businesses $1.50 per CPU core ... patching has been free for those using Microsoft’s cloud services. But starting July 1, 2025, organizations running Windows ...

Since September 2024, Microsoft has been letting interested admins try out hot patching for Windows Server 2025 free of ... charges 1.50 US dollars per CPU core per month for the function.

Regardless, those days are coming to an end, thanks to upcoming availability of in-memory hot-patching, as long as you're running Windows Server ... of $1.50 per CPU core. To use it, all you ...