The first Delta Updates are here: Microsoft has released the new cumulative updates for the Windows 10 ως μέρος του Patch Tuesday αυτού το μήνα. Όπως φαίνεται όμως η company released for the first time Delta Updates through the Update Catalog.
The first Delta updates or Delta Updates are available for platforms 32 and 64-bit of Windows 10 but also of Windows Server 2016.
What are Delta Updates?
As you know, cumulative updates as implied by their name are cumulative, which means that they include all the fixes that were released earlier. This means that installers are growing every month, as cumulative updates include all previous Windows 10 updates.
The Delta updates or Delta are now cumulative updates that only include the changes that were made from the previous cumulative update. In other words, if you install cumulative updates each month, you will not need to download the full installer but only the Delta update you need.
So Delta updates are and will be significantly smaller in size so installation is faster and much easier, especially on large networks computers.
The advantages of the size of Delta updates are first seen with updates this month. For example, the x64 cumulative update of Windows 10 released today reaches 1,1 GB in size, and the corresponding Delta update is significantly smaller on 700 MB.