FTA: “Microsoft says that Windows devices need to be online for at least eight hours to get the latest updates and have them correctly installed after they're r

FTA: “Microsoft says that Windows devices need to be online for at least eight hours to get the latest updates and have them correctly installed after they're released through Windows Update.” I think you can also read that as “after we release an update, it can take 8 hours for it to get to all machines needing it” I guess the X million Windows installs poll Microsoft servers for updates at (somewhat) fixed times that, to even out load on their update servers, vary by machine during the day. Possibly still less than ideal (couldn’t a machine that sees it has been offline for X hours poll the moment it’s connected to a network?), but not _that_ weird.