Microsoft details improvements to Windows 10 feature update installation times

Microsoft has reduced the time it takes between restarting your PC to install a feature update and booting back into your PC down by 63 percent! Here's how they did it.

Microsoft has today detailed improvements it has made to the Windows 10 update model that has reduced the time it takes to install a Windows 10 feature update by an incredible 63 percent since the Creators Update launch this time last year. Before, the downtime between rebooting to install an update and being able to use your PC again was, on average, an 82 minute endeavour. Now, it's an average of just 30 minutes.

In a blog post on the Windows Insider site, Microsoft details how it has changed up the update model by keeping a lot more of the install process "online" instead of "offline." The "online" phase refers to the part of the install process where the PC is still usable. In the past, only a small portion of the install process was done during the online phase, with most of the work happening in the offline part where the user could not use their PC.

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