• Puh-leeeeze: Microsoft says it’s listening to us and will reduce version upgrades to 30 minutes

    Posted on March 20, 2018 at 07:15 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    The Windows echosphere is busy parroting the latest Microsoft “advancement.” According to a Windows Insider blog post:

    We’re listening to you — feature update improvements

    We’ve heard your feedback about the lengthy amount of time your PC is unusable during a feature update installation, and we’ve been working on ways to decrease this time… For the Creators Update released in April of 2017, the average offline time for a user was approximately 82 minutes… the average offline time for the Fall Creator’s Update released last October has dropped to 51 minutes, a 38% improvement!… We’ve done additional work in the upcoming Windows release to move portions of migration operations to the online phase as well. This has resulted in an overall reduction of offline time when installing builds in the Insiders Program to an average of 30 minutes. That’s a reduction of 63% from the Creators Update!

    I have a few admittedly snide observations about that breathless! achievement!

    First… good grief, the average blackout time for the Creators Update (version 1703) was 82 minutes? That’s unconscionable. 30 minutes is better, sure, but gimme a break.

    With Windows versions rolling out twice a year, why hasn’t Microsoft figured out a way to make the version changes happen in just a few minutes – or even seconds? That’s what Google does with ChromeOS.

    Sure, Windows is more powerful than ChromeOS. But why can’t it be more responsive, too?

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