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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Anonymous 0 Comments

They dont, windows needs to do that.

That is in no way fundamental to upgrading and just windows design for uppdating. Linux does uppdating without reboots for years.

Rebooting just makes it easy, because you have a clean state again and dont have to manage some applications still using the old interfaces and libaries.

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