This was the birth of "Moments"—Microsoft’s new engineering cadence. They shipped the stable 22H2 ISO first to satisfy the enterprise and corporate update cycles. Then, a few weeks later, in October 2022, they pushed out the "Moment 1" update via Windows Update.
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