Windows 10 updates are about to become less painful

MICROSOFT HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THE CRITICISM surrounding the painful Windows 10 upgrading process with the launch of a new Unified Update Platform (UUP).

Updating Windows 10 can be quite a painful experience, however Microsoft is claiming that UUP will help reduce the size of downloads and make them easier to install.

UUP is going to allow Microsoft to ship updates as part of different download packages, this means users will only need to download the parts of Windows that have changed in between updates.

Bill Karagounis, director of programme management for the Windows Insider programme and OS fundamentals at Microsoft, said in a blog post: “One of the biggest community and customer benefits of UUP is the reduction you’ll see in download size on PCs.

“We have converged technologies in our build and publishing systems to enable differential downloads for all devices built on the Mobile and PC OS.”

Good news is that users may be able to see around a 35% reduction in the size of the much larger updates, Karagounis has said.

Checking for updates is going to be become much easier for us all and this could allow Microsoft to roll our Windows 10 changes much faster.

Karagounis said: “We have also revamped how devices check for updates, making them more efficient. As we move to UUP, we are reducing the update data sent to client devices as well as the amount of processing we are doing on devices. This is especially important for devices built on the Mobile OS.

The change will be introduced alongside the Windows 10 Creator’s Update in March, although Microsoft is aware that UUP will come into effect for their updates further down the line.

Windows Insiders can now start testing the technology in the company’s build update for mobile devices.  Microsoft will start to roll this out to PC builds later this year at the same time as HoloLens devices.