What is the difference between updating and upgrading a software??

Hello everyone, a warm welcome to all of you on our blog. Today, we will discuss about the differences between updating and upgrading a software or a package.
We are damn sure that most of you don't know about the differences between updating and upgrading a package. Let us discuss about them in this post.

Update:Frankly speaking, it is nothing but applying some new patches and changes to the existing files on your computer to fix the bugs in aprogram. Suppose, you have installed a software on your system (may be on your phone or on your computer) and if you did not update it regularly and if there exists any bug in it's older version which you have on your system i.e, say you have asoftware with version say 5.112 and it's newer or latest version is having version 8.117 and if version 5.112 is having some loop hole or bug then it can be used by any hacker to hack your system surely. So, it is recommended to update your softwares time to time, so that, if former version contains some bugs then after updating it,the patches will be applied to it automatically. Theupdate file is pretty much smaller in size than upgrade file.

Upgrade:When we upgrade a program then first the existing files are uninstalled and a new one is being installed in it's place. So this takes significantly longer time and there are more changes to the program in an upgrade rather than there is with an update. Upgrade file is much larger than the update file for the same program.The main objective of update is to provide bug and error fixes to present existing files but main objective of upgrade is to introducing new features and functionality to an existing program.So, update is used to refresh the installed package but it does not install any new packages which is only done by upgrading. Both requires restarting your system after finishing but still theyare different. Update are kind of fixing the bugs ofyour house but upgrades are which fully renovate your house.Note:We wrongly say that we have updated our windows from 7 to 8/8.1/10 but it is wrong because that is upgrading the windows not updating.So that's it for today guys. We will back soon. Till then like, share & subscribe our blog to get the updates.