There were so many times that updating Win7 was a nightmare. I used to do plenty of fresh installs on various PCs and I would have to wait a day or sometimes more to get the OS up to date. I would have thought we moved past this by now.

Microsoft's update mechanism is just fucking awful trash, they should replace it with downloading an archive and unpacking it.

They seem to think they are very smart with all those binary deltas, but it appears to be so complex that nobody inside that company understands it fully, and that's for more than 10 years.

Apparently people responsible for creating it still work there in important places, can't find another explanation.

But really, there's Microsoft apps in that list.