
For Windows 10, every year, Microsoft releases two major builds. Service Packs does not exist from Windows 8 onwards. What are Windows Builds?Īs mentioned before, Windows Build is Microsoft’s new way of providing the feature updates of its operating system. It means that instead of introducing a new version of Windows OS every three years, Microsoft would periodically provide updates to Windows 10 to improve its performance and speed up the integration of the latest features and reduce the strain of getting a new OS.Īs a part of this new service model, Windows 10 users get two types of updates, Feature updates, which are provided two times in a year and Quality or Cumulative Updates, which are provided on every second Tuesday of the month. Windows as a ServiceĪfter the failure of Windows 8, Microsoft launched a new service model known as Windows as a Service (WaaS) for Windows 10. Instead of installing hundreds of small updates, Service Pack provided a way to install all of them in a single patch. They used to include performance and security improvements and support for the new hardware.


Windows Service Packs were basically the bundle of small patches and new features that used to be combined with previous versions of Windows, that makes the operating system more stable and reliable. This month, Outbyte has been downloaded by 26,078 readers.
