You're not Microsoft's customer any more. You're their product.
And it looks like Google treats their cattle better.
Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
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Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#32Now, at first I was thinking this was a relatively sane feature like Apple's Software Update Server (which caches and re-serves updates for your local network)[1]. It's a very useful tool, considering the fact that when iOS 7 came out, it took out my entire high school's network because everyone was downloading it. This isn't transparently helping serve updates to computers on a local network to save bandwidth. It tr…
Is there a word in English that captures how massively disappointed I am with this being on every Win10 computer and by default? "Illegal" would seem to be a good start in many jurisdictions. For example, as described in the article, I can't see how this behaviour doesn't fall foul of computer misuse and fraud laws in the UK. The best defence might be that somewhere buried in the terms and conditions it's allowed, bu…
Blizzard have done this for WoW updates forever. MS may run into some liability for inducing data overages depending on how up front they are about it and how badly it bites people.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#33Now, at first I was thinking this was a relatively sane feature like Apple's Software Update Server (which caches and re-serves updates for your local network)[1]. It's a very useful tool, considering the fact that when iOS 7 came out, it took out my entire high school's network because everyone was downloading it. This isn't transparently helping serve updates to computers on a local network to save bandwidth. It tr…
It seemed to work out fine for Spotify
With Spotify, the aim was low latency. If you click on a song, it should start playing immediately. There's no such requirement for software updates.
Back when the only data center was in Stockholm, the only way to meet latency requirements was P2P. Now that we're a grown-up company we've disabled that and use CDN's instead.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#34So it's about how updates are distributed? Would be interesting but the page seems to be down -> http://sitemeer.com/#lauren.vortex.com/archive/001116.html
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#35Let me understand this better: they centralized skype and decentralized software updates? Wow.
As I understand it, they centralized Skype because mobile phones couldn't be supernodes. (Not defending it, just explaining it.)
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#36Regarding all of the issues surrounding Windows 10, could somebody create a little app that lets us turn off the objectionable features? I realize it can all be done in the settings, but an app could include some explanatory info, and also serve as a way of documenting all of the issues in one place.
At the point where you find yourself writing an application whose sole task is to disable intrusive settings in your OS, perhaps you should consider switching to a different OS.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#37I thought exaggeration was something reserved to CNN and other news outlet. But here we are. I think this is a real concern, and users should know what the PC is doing, but half of HN post are about how we can share data among ourselves instead of relying on central distributors. Your next post should be about how WebRTC steals your bandwidth.
See the difference is that you explicitly use WebRTC. Distributed systems are great you decide to use them. Someone else turning it on for you is a little dishonest.
No you don't. You visit a website. The author of the website explicitly uses WebRTC, not you.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#38What's the motivation behind this? It can't really be bandwidth cost savings for distributing updates, right? At least, I can't imagine that the savings outweigh the predictably bad press and the additionally required customer support.
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Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#39Lol, site is down because of too many hits. Or up, but barely.
Re: Windows 10 “steals” your bandwidth
#40Can someone do a quick back of the envelope calculation on how much bandwidth this will actually eat up?
If it's on the order of tens of megabytes this is a lot of outrage over nothing. You blow more than that loading a few youtube videos.
P2P is the future, don't try to fight it...