• The Windows Unified Update Platform, UUP

    Posted on November 7, 2016 at 15:03 CST by • Comment in the Forums

    Several of you have written, asking for my take on UUP. Late last week, Bill Karagounis posted a fairly short description of the product (service?) and explained how it’s rolling out now to Windows beta testers. For now, as best I can tell, it’s only available for Insiders in the Fast Ring who are using Windows Phone.

    There’s a lot of confusion about UUP. It isn’t directed at Cumulative Updates. It’s very specifically pointed at people who are upgrading their versions of Windows 10. Says Karagounis:

    As we rollout UUP, this will eventually be impactful for PCs where users can expect their download size to decrease by approximately 35% when going from one major update of Windows to another. We’re working on this now with the goal of supporting this for feature updates after the Windows 10 Creators Update; Insiders will see this sooner.

    I haven’t given it much thought because Cumulative Updates already use differential downloads, and the number of times folks upgrade versions (RTM to 1511, 1511 to 1607) has been small – two of them, to be exact. I think it’s great that future version upgrades won’t take as long, but I reserve the right to be skeptical.

    In the past we’ve seen a lot of angst with version upgrade – changed settings, added apps, deleted apps, various shenanigans. I figure we won’t have much info about UUP until it actually rolls out in March of next year, or thereabouts.

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