Comment by wruza
5 years ago
My personal pet peeve is Windows Update (and their products installation routine in general). I bet that it’s n^3 somewhere deep and they carefully curb than n for decades.
5 years ago
My personal pet peeve is Windows Update (and their products installation routine in general). I bet that it’s n^3 somewhere deep and they carefully curb than n for decades.
Good call. I'd love to read a post-mortem on why it was even possible for Windows XP's update check to be as slow as it was. I've definitely waited around 2 hours one time just for the check to complete after finishing an installation.