Microsoft to Retire Windows 10 Delta Updates

Windows 10 cumulative updates are particularly important for users of Microsoft’s latest operating system, as they deliver both security and non-security improvements in just one package that helps reduce fragmentation.

Microsoft uses three different types of updates to make this new system more effective, namely full updates, express updates, and delta updates.

Starting with February 2019, the company will continue to employ only the first two, as it wants to retire delta updates in order to rely exclusively on express updates to deliver smaller packages to Windows 10 devices.

Full cumulative updates and express updates

Technically, there’s one major difference between delta and express updates: the latter are smaller in size thanks to the fact that they patch individual files and not the full component, as it’s the case of delta updates. Microsoft has a more read more)

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