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Hey folks! Two things. Yesterday were the monthly Windows updates. They fix several critical vulnerabilities that are already being exploited. THe number one thoing is to do the updates if you have been holding off, make arrangements to get them now.

Today's article from the ZDNET's best Windows Tech writer IMHO, Ed Bott, gives us good news for less bulky updates with Delta packages taking the place of cumulative rollouts of all previous updates and the new.

The main part I just learned about the creators updates is that you will get a lot of relief in the future as the updates will be packe]aged without a cumulative one that grows in size. However:

 

Excerpt:

 

"Microsoft quietly delivers two Windows Update surprises

The upcoming Creators Update makes an early appearance, signaling its imminent arrival, and the first slimmed-down "delta updates" arrive for Windows 10.

The delta update packages address an inevitable by-product of the Windows-as-a-service model. Each month's Cumulative Update includes all security and reliability fixes from previous monthly updates.

That means each Cumulative Update gets progressively bigger. The first Cumulative Update for the 64-bit version 1607, released in August 2016, was a mere 113 MB. By November, it was 871.8 MB, and four months later it was over a gigabyte.

Fortunately, that's about as big as those cumulative updates get. The update size for the 64-bit Windows 10 version 1511, which is nearing the end of its supported life, is now at 1079.9 MB. That's up only about 100 MB in the past six months.

Alas, a delta update won't be available for the Creators Update. That functionality is currently available only for monthly Cumulative Updates. When version 1703 hits Windows Update in April, it will be roughly 3 GB in size.

These delta updates are a small step on the road to something much more efficient. Version 1703 will include architectural changes that will make the next big feature update, at the end of this year, significantly smaller. That feature, called the Unified Update Platform (UUP), will begin rolling out as part of the Creators Update, version 1703.

Microsoft says UUP will cut the size of feature updates by approximately 35 percent. And the changes don't stop there. It will also allow differential monthly updating that will shave the size of monthly quality updates, delivering Express Updates that are roughly 100 MB in size on systems that are otherwise up to date. Microsoft says those changes will appear first in Windows Insider preview builds later this year."

The full article with more clarity is here:

http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-delivers-two-windows-update-surprises/?loc=newsletter_large_thumb_featured&ftag=TRE17cfd61&bhid=19724681974700635514865380622813

 

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