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Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 7 months ago by otter@lemmy.ca to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft's update mechanism is just fucking awful trash, they should replace it with downloading an archive and unpacking it.

They seem to think they are very smart with all those binary deltas, but it appears to be so complex that nobody inside that company understands it fully, and that's for more than 10 years.

Apparently people responsible for creating it still work there in important places, can't find another explanation.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

They probably failed upwards