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Microsoft since the launch of its newest version of the operating system, Windows 10 has been regularly pushing out Cumulative Updates for all of its supported versions. The Cumulative Updates contained all the important security and non security improvements.

To push out these updates, Microsoft used three different modes of updates namely Full updates, Express updates and Delta updates. Full updates used to carry all the important files and components from the previous updates while Express updates contained only the files which were required to be installed after the full feature update and hence the size of the download is much lower compared to Full and Delta updates.

Microsoft also used the third option, Delta update which will be installed only if all the files available on the system are up to date. The delta updates were pushed since Microsoft had not made the protocol available to 3rd party update management systems.

Now starting February 2019, all this is going to change with Microsoft deciding to retire Delta updates for all its supported versions of Windows 10. The company decided to retire delta updates since the company’s express updates are now available via all third party update management systems which makes the delta update mode unnecessary.

The company says that the delta update will continue to be made available for systems running Windows 10 Anniversary update up to April 2018 update.

These versions of the Operating system will also stop getting delta update once they reach the end of support date laid down by Microsoft. The delta updates are currently available for the below versions of Windows 10

Windows 10, version 1607
Windows 10, version 1703
Windows 10, version 1709
Windows 10, version 1803

Continuing with express updates which are smaller in size, Microsoft makes it easy for Windows 10 users to install the updates faster and it also helps in taking care of the network bandwidth and simplifies the process of cumulative updates especially for IT admins.

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