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.
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’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.