Why are Windows updates so slow?

[Paddy Landau]

… Linux … needs the entire OS to be updated when updating an application

Doesn't an updated Linux application with new dependencies need only the relevant libraries to be updated?

[kevinmchapman]

Doesn't an updated Linux application with new dependencies need only the relevant libraries to be updated?

It does, but it doesn't take long to get messy, so it is not a long-term solution.

[philinux]

Windows is probably creating a restore point too. But in general I notice that small updates take ages to download. Then takes ages to install. This os win 7 too.

[Paddy Landau]

Windows is probably creating a restore point…

Sometimes it does, sometimes not; I do not know the reason why.

[LADmaticCA]

Microsoft's servers are definitely part of it. I work for a county government and when we run updates on a new or imaged Windows 7 install, the download takes much longer than you would expect for say 60MB of updates.

Whereas, I get 3 or 4MB/s when I do Ubuntu updates.

Good question OP. I've wondered about this myself.

[pqwoerituytrueiwoq]

I hate that windows doesn't warn you that it will take 20 or so minutes to process the updates before it shuts down. Sometimes, when I need to leave the coffee shop for example, I'm stuck with a computer that I can't power down.

• get to your next class
• auto shutdown due to low battery

i think with XP MS is just trolling its users

[Ender Shadow]

That's why I disabled the automatic updates when I was using Windows.