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The advantage of this system is intended to be that it doesn’t break the update process halfway through by a system running out of space.
The disadvantage is that it would eliminate virtually all of the storage available on small systems and Windows 10’s previous minimum storage requirement was 16GB for a 32-bit installation. That plus 7GB of storage only left 4-5GB of data for programs on a base install.
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When Microsoft announced these changes, we criticized them for boosting storage requirements that would ultimately make some of the original Windows 10 tablets useless and declared that the company should raise the minimum requirements to compensate for this.
Now, the company has done exactly that. IoT Enterprise storage requirements remain the same, however.
What this means for older systems that are this storage limited is that they’ll be limited in terms of which OS updates they can apply. Microsoft’s life cycle service update is shown below:
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