{"id":268435,"date":"2018-07-16T11:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=268435"},"modified":"2018-07-16T11:33:14","modified_gmt":"2018-07-16T09:33:14","slug":"microsoft-to-stop-windows-10-delta-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/268435-microsoft-to-stop-windows-10-delta-updates.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to stop Windows 10 delta updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will stop delta updates for Windows 10 from February 2019, according to a report by <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-to-retire-windows-10-delta-updates-521970.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Softpedia<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that Microsoft uses three types of updates for Windows 10 &#8211;\u00a0full updates, express updates, and delta updates.<\/p>\n<p>From next year, only full and express updates will be used, with express updates used to deliver smaller files to devices.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technically, there\u2019s one major difference between delta and express updates: the latter are smaller in size thanks to the fact that they patch individual files and not the full component,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<p>The report added that a PC using express updates will determine optimal differentials, and will then only download what is needed for the system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ultimately, the more up to date a device is, the smaller the size of the differential download,&#8221; stated the report.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/268357-eus-attack-on-android-boosts-rival-app-developers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">EU\u2019s attack on Android boosts rival app developers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft will stop delta updates for Windows 10 from February 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52439,123,26970],"class_list":["post-268435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-delta-updates","tag-microsoft","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268435"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268437,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268435\/revisions\/268437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}