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Windows updates often feel like a necessary evil, but an evil nonetheless. Who among us hasn't been waylaid by a huge update package download—or chosen the "update and shutdown" option at the end of a long day only to sit watching a painfully slow percentage indicator lurch forward? Now Microsoft has announced it's changing things up, with "checkpoint cumulative updates" that promise to speed up the process considerably.

Smaller and faster Windows 11 updates are on the way as Microsoft switches to downloading just what you need and none of what you don't The tyranny of huge Windows updates looks to be a thing of the past.

Today is Microsoft's January 2023 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability and a total of 98 flaws.

This is the first Patch Tuesday of 2023, and it fixes a whopping 98 vulnerabilities, with eleven of them classified as 'Critical.'