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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I’ll try to ELI5 this – imagine, you play a board game and in the middle of the game, the actual board changes slightly (bank and prison switch places, for example). Are you sure that you can continue the game even with the changed board? Couldn’t you just end up in prison instead of say saving the princess just because the board changed?

It’s better to start playing the game from the start after the board changes or finish the game on the old board and start new on the new one.

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