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.
They need at least 8hrs to track everything you do while you work.
Considering that Windows has a tendency to update randomly without user input, and that most laptops don’t last eight hours on a single charge under load, yeah, hope you bring a restore disk with you everywhere.
Sounds to me like those 8 hours could be split up across several days:
Specifically, data shows that devices need a minimum of two continuous connected hours, and six total connected hours after an update is released to reliably update.
(I’m also not sure that it’s actually 8 hours. I’m interpreting that quote as it requiring 6 hours, of which 2 hours need to be uninterrupted.)
Mining bitcoin? God, i wish i come up with this idea for the system update. I will be rich!
wtf, seriously?
Just keep on truckin’
