why do computers need to reboot after an update

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I thought more recent OS had ways to update files currently in use and not require reboots.
Corporate policy of rebooting once a week and forcing it is killing me: I usually have tens of excel windows interlinked, and having to reboot daily just saps my will to live….

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Because it is a Window$ problem. My Linux machines are hardly ever turned off. I detest Windows and that I had to change from Linux to Windows on my last machine, owing to one of the windows programs that I sometimes used on dualboot clashing with the linux grub. ( looking at you Autodesk!)

I regularly lost days of work because windows enforced restarts. If you don’t restart, the machine becomes practically unusable.

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