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I investigated Windows 11's massive 5GB monthly .msu updates, and AI is only part of the problem
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They do; the article points that out.
However, this doesn't work in enterprise environments. Companies want to download updates once and then deliver then themselves when and to whom they want. And that means they need to download all of them.
These days they're all bundled up in one huge package so companies have to devote a of storage for update files that mostly contain the same stuff as last month's.