Microsoft has announced that it will reduce the size of its updates for Windows 10. For this purpose, the company uses a technology that it previously used for Windows 11, which means that the updates to that operating system are forty percent smaller.
With Windows 11, Microsoft says it uses 'efficient packaging', which reduces the monthly updates are much smaller than those for Windows 10. The company will do the same for Windows 10 from version 22H2, Microsoft now announces. The idea is that if updates are smaller, security patches will also be installed faster and users will be protected faster.
The first update that is smaller is KB5036979. Devices running Windows 10 version 22H2 will see that that update is 650MB, while the April 9 update was still 830MB.