[lbriner]

Yeah, there is an irony that in attempting an efficient model of updates, they have something that is often dog slow and not even that small to download. If you separate things like librariy content, you could easily package most things as single archives like MacOS does and you know that you have something that works. You could probably also split c:\windows into, say, 10 different things so you wouldn't necessarily need to replace all of them at the same time.

Alas, the tech debt for MS is enormous so unless they had the ability to create a new OS with no backwards compatability (except most of the WinAPI if possible) then we have to live with the pain.