Microsoft says that Windows devices need to be online for at least eight hours to get the latest updates and have them correctly installed after they're released through Windows Update.
“Yeah, your computer will be completely unusable for 8 hours while we do something that takes the competition 15 minutes, but we’re not going to change anything” : ) - Microsoft
I’m guessing, it’s rather an issue of scale, wanting to maximize profits and dumb update policies.
So, scale is an issue, because they do need to serve a lot of update downloads.
Maximizing profits is an issue, because they could certainly set up more update mirrors to reduce download times. (Or offer a piece of software that people volunteer to mirror updates for.)
And dumb update policies are a problem, because fucking Patch Tuesday™.
They don’t roll out security updates as soon as they’re available, but rather just once a month. So, on the second Tuesday in a month, all of the Windows devices start to download updates from Microsoft’s servers.
Honestly, I marvel at this working at all. They must have truly crippled the update downloading on each client to prevent a self-inflicted DDoS.
I love how they’re measuring and presenting it like some unchangeable law of nature. Like, they know they don’t have to fix this.
“Yeah, your computer will be completely unusable for 8 hours while we do something that takes the competition 15 minutes, but we’re not going to change anything” : ) - Microsoft
any idea why it does this? feels like they’re up to something sketchy.
microsoft incompetence, while plentiful, only explains so much
I’m guessing, it’s rather an issue of scale, wanting to maximize profits and dumb update policies.
So, scale is an issue, because they do need to serve a lot of update downloads.
Maximizing profits is an issue, because they could certainly set up more update mirrors to reduce download times. (Or offer a piece of software that people volunteer to mirror updates for.)
And dumb update policies are a problem, because fucking Patch Tuesday™.
They don’t roll out security updates as soon as they’re available, but rather just once a month. So, on the second Tuesday in a month, all of the Windows devices start to download updates from Microsoft’s servers.
Honestly, I marvel at this working at all. They must have truly crippled the update downloading on each client to prevent a self-inflicted DDoS.