Patch My PC provided a Workplace Ninja Summit 2026 held from September 14th to 17th in Baden, Switzerland, to offer a glimpse into the future direction of their product development. In addition to the already available CVE Insights , the manufacturer is currently working on three new features: Driver Management, Server Patching, and Device Groups.
Release dates and further details regarding these features have not yet been announced. David James, VP of Engineering, and Wout Vergauwen, Director of Product, explicitly noted that the roadmap is subject to change. However, the announcement highlights Patch My PC's product strategy: 3rd Party Patching Completeness. Applications, drivers, and servers. For the latter, there is a significant gap in Microsoft Intune and Azure Arc that Patch My PC aims to bridge.
Key takeaways
- CVE Insights is live and expands Patch My PC with risk-based vulnerability prioritization and remediation tracking.
- Drivers, Server Patching, and Device Groups are in development; Patch My PC has not yet provided specific release dates.
- PMPC is clearly evolving into a one-stop shop for application and vulnerability management.
1 CVE Insights connects vulnerabilities and remediation
Patch My PC unveiled an enhanced version of CVE Insights, featuring the new "Exposure Tracker," at the Workplace Ninja Summit, where it was demonstrated live. This feature integrates vulnerability data with software inventory, patch availability, and remediation status.
The Exposure Tracker shows, among other things, whether an update is already available for a vulnerability and the current progress of its validation, packaging, and deployment.
In addition, risk-based prioritization is designed to help identify and resolve vulnerabilities more quickly by tracking progress and the associated workload. With this, the market leader in 3rd-party patch management is moving its product closer to the realm of vulnerability management.
2 Driver Management: one layer below applications
Patch My PC describes the topic of drivers with the concept “One layer under the applications”.
Today, drivers are managed via Windows Update, Intune, Configuration Manager, or vendor-specific tools from Dell, Lenovo, or HP, depending on the environment. This often leads to fragmented processes for applications, operating systems, firmware, and drivers.
What PMPC is specifically planning remains to be seen. For instance, it is unclear whether they will create their own driver catalog or simply provide more centralized control over existing Microsoft mechanisms.
What is clear is that Patch My PC intends to extend its current application lifecycle by an additional layer.
3 Server Patching: interesting for Intune-only environments
Server Patching is, in our view, the most exciting announcement because it could address one of the biggest limitations of current Intune environments: Windows Servers cannot be managed like standard clients via Intune.
As a result, servers still require a second management solution – this is often MECM. This is exactly where the next problem arises: Microsoft has now announced an Annual Release Cadence for MECM, while new features and investments are being strategically shifted more toward Intune and the cloud.
For server management, Microsoft is increasingly recommending Azure Arc with Azure Update Manager. In our view, however, this is not an equivalent replacement for MECM.
This is precisely why the announcement from Patch My PC is interesting: If servers can be integrated directly into the existing application and patch managementapproach in the future, Patch My PC could close a major gap.
4 Device Groups: more targeted instead of for the entire inventory
The third roadmap topic is called Patch My PC Device GroupsPatch My PC hasn't said much about this yet either.
It appears that updates and applications will be able to be targeted more precisely at specific device populations.
Possibilities include, for example:
- specific device types
- devices with specific attributes
- pilot and test devices
- individual organizational departments
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Until there is a concrete announcement, it remains unclear which rules or attributes can be used for this and how Device Groups will interact with existing Intune or MECM groups.
5 Conclusion: Patch My PC is significantly expanding its scope
CVE Insights, Drivers, Server Patching, and Device Groups point in a clear direction. Patch My PC is increasingly evolving from a classic third-party patching tool into a one-stop shop for application and vulnerability management.
Server patching in particular could become relevant here, as it addresses a real gap in Intune-centric environments.
Technical details and release dates are still missing. However, the vision is clear: applications, vulnerabilities, target groups, drivers, and even servers are to be covered more comprehensively through a single platform. We look forward to seeing when Patch My PC reveals more about its roadmap and how concrete the new features will be.
Dorian has been involved in corporate and IT strategy since 2011. Due to the endpoint security deficiencies of many companies and the information overload, he developed the endpoint strategy. Dorian is co-founder of the “Endpoint Management” expert group at IAMCP e.V.
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