Windows 10’s Peer-to-Peer Updating

Sorry I didn’t get a post up yesterday; super busy day.
Windows 10 Technical Preview Build 10036 has been leaked, and steadily, new features are being discovered. One major feature found is the ability to update via peer-to-peer, or P2P, sharing. This allows users to grab updates from other PCs in their LAN or on the Internet, rather than directly from Windows Update. This will streamline the downloading of updates for both Microsoft and users.

Firstly, Microsoft will greatly benefit from this process because of the greatly reduced strain on their servers. Windows 10 will have the most users of any one version of Windows ever. That means, under normal circumstances, it would be a nightmare for the download server, as hundreds of millions of user would be downloading updates straight from Microsoft. This solution makes it so only one PC in each household has to download Windows updates, streamlining the process.

This also speeds up updates for the user, as well. Transferring data over a LAN, or local network, is generally much faster than downloading it from the Internet. This new system means that PCs on the same network can share Windows 10 updates with each other, making the download process after the initial PC much faster.

Considering how specific a feature addition like this is, I expect loads of little additions to Windows 10 like this to pop up in the months before its official release

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Originally published at thewinthusiast.wordpress.com on March 18, 2015.