Windows updates often feel like a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless. Who among us hasn't been waylaid by a huge update package download—or chosen the "update and shutdown" option at the end of a long day only to sit watching a painfully slow percentage indicator lurch forward? Now Microsoft has announced it's changing things up, with "checkpoint cumulative updates" that promise to speed up the process considerably.
Windows 11 version 24H2 has been available in the Windows Insider program for a while now but is scheduled for a main release at some point towards the end of this year. Microsoft says that as part of the update, it's introducing update features and security enhancements through smaller, incremental download packages that only contain the changes since the previous update.
