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Windows Update downloads more than "patches". It has been used in the past to distribute standalone tools and service packs.



It has never wholesale upgraded the OS to a new major version. Nobody expects it to.


And that's a large part of why Windows security has always been terrible. While we may not have expected it, that just means we were pleasantly surprised.




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