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How does a critical Windows Update find every Windows computer on the Internet?
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Mar 15, 2026322 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've read that Patch Tuesday is the second Tuesday of every month, so I could picture the code in Windows Update on the client machine being set to contact the company servers so Microsoft doesn't have to find all the Windows computers- all the Windows computers come to them on that day. But if the…
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Microsoft doesn't have to do that – the computers themselves have Windows Update running and check for available updates every day. The Patch Tuesday is just a convention, for users to be able to install all accumulated updates at once, and system a…
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