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PC Gamer
Nick Evanson

Microsoft's word-soup has made Windows 11 updates noticeably quicker via the 'parallel processing of component manifests' complementing 'the parallel hydration of newly serviced components using reverse and forward differentials'

Windows 11 2H22 update screenshots.

Unless you're a PC enthusiast or hardware tester, you probably don't install Windows very often. However, all of us experience the routine grind of updating the operating system, to fix bugs, improve security, and perhaps even totally bork your PC. It turns out that Microsoft has been working to make the update process a whole lot faster, with its 24H2 update.

Like most hardware reviewers, I install Windows a lot and I mean a lot. New CPU, motherboard, SSD, etc? That's a fresh installation of Microsoft's operating system every single time and even though I've streamlined the process as much as possible, it's still pretty tedious—especially when it comes to updating the operating system.

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