Optional updates within Windows Update may return with Windows 10 20H1 branch

We've been on our way for weeks with news regarding Windows 10 updates and news that isn't exactly good. Mandatory updates that also arrive loaded with bugs that cause the equipment to malfunction in many cases and make users angry. And the problem is that those updates are forced.

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Once we listen to Windows Update, an update appears that we must finish installing, something that did not always happen before the arrival of Windows 10.At that time, there was a section in Windows Update called optional updates in which updates appeared whose installation, although advisable, was not essential. An option that could return with the Spring 2020 update."

Are optional updates coming back to Windows 10?

With the 20H1 branch of Windows 10 expected to arrive in the spring, users would once again have the ability to determine which updates they want to installYou could thus discriminate against updates that are not important. Security patches, drivers… the user would regain control.

It would be a method that would also help to avoid problems like the ones we are seeing with some Builds released by Microsoft and that cause some users to think and reconsider before installing an update, knowing and fearful of the problems it may give you.

The clue that suggests this change is that some members of the Insider Program who have installed the latest Build of the 20H1 branch, the one with the number 18980, have seen how a section appears with the title “view optional updates”, within Windows Update.

Symptom that perhaps Microsoft is working on this return, when entering this section those who already have it active state that a list of optional updates appears(all drivers) that can be voluntarily installed on the computer. It will be the user who, depending on his needs, decides what he wants to update on his computer.

Waiting for more details on Windows 10 in the 20H1 branch that should arrive in spring.We will be able to see brushstrokes within the Insider Program that will tell us if this improvement finally reaches the global version of Windows 10 that arrives in the first part of 2020.

Source | Winareo