MS Delta patching technology

[Bulat Ziganshin]

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb417345.aspx

[moinakg]

The first line seems misleading. They write it in a way that claims that they invented Delta Compression. Microsoft delta patching seems to date back to 2005 while Xdelta dates back to 1997.

[moinakg]

Here is the Delta format specification from MS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc483133.aspx
Is is Lempel Ziv Extended Delta.