From ComputerWorld: Microsoft last week said that it will pare the size of Windows 10's monthly updates once version 1809 reaches customers' PCs this fall.
"We'll be bringing a new design for quality updates to the next major versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server," wrote Maliha Qureshi, a Microsoft program manager, in an August 16 post to a company blog. "This design creates a compact update package for easier and faster deployment."
The next "major" versions of Windows 10 and Windows Server will each be labeled 1809 in Microsoft's yymm format, which denotes their purported month of release. Ideally, the feature upgrade for both lines will debut next month, but Microsoft's cadence usually runs a month later.
By quality updates, Qureshi meant the operating systems' security patches — and non-security bug fixes — that are issued several times monthly. For example, on the second Tuesday of the month, hence "Patch Tuesday," Microsoft releases security updates to patch vulnerabilities. Also included under the umbrella term are updates that Microsoft has designated as B, C and D, an alphabet that has confused many IT administrators.
Beginning with Windows 10 1809 (and Windows Server 1809), only one size of quality update will ship; that update will be considerably smaller than what Microsoft now calls the full update, which sometimes uses the moniker of latest cumulative update, or LCU. The quality updates will also be slightly larger than what Microsoft refers to as its express updates, the much smaller packages that have ranged in size from 150MB to 200MB.
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