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Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent
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#12Anyone know what the "$Windows.~BT" folder is would supposedly be located?
in the root of the C:\ drive (it's a hidden directory)
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#13Holy smoke - this isn't very good.
My parents in NZ only get 1 or 2 GB a month ... this would have cost them a fortune.
Fortunately I switched them to mac last year.
Microsoft : You suck.
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#14Headline is misleading. They do have consent. This is one reason I don't allow automatic updates.
MS statement: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade."
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#15Headline is misleading. They do have consent. This is one reason I don't allow automatic updates. MS statement: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade."
I think this is a stretch. While they may have users' consent in the broadest, legalistic sense, I think it is doubtful that users who chose to receive automatic updates would expect that this would extend to a 6 GB download of an entirely new version of the OS. This is not your usual Windows update, and is probably not the sort of thing users have in mind when they opt in for automatic updates.
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#16Headline is misleading. They do have consent. This is one reason I don't allow automatic updates. MS statement: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade."
Windows 10 Home edition doesn't allow you to turn off automatic updates (or at least I haven't seen an option to do so).
I did manage to turn off automatically seeding the updates to others, which I also find to be egregious.
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#17So why are we allowing Microsoft to get away with it?
As long as MS gets paid, they will do what they want, so stop paying them. Stop giving them revenue directly, and stop giving them market share that that they profit from indirectly.
Anybody that continues to use their products is asking for more of this crap. Some may complain that their business depends on Windows; that's unfortunate, but why didn't they have a second source for all mission critical dependencies?
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#18Headline is misleading. They do have consent. This is one reason I don't allow automatic updates. MS statement: "For individuals who have chosen to receive automatic updates through Windows Update, we help upgradable devices get ready for Windows 10 by downloading the files they’ll need if they decide to upgrade."
So if people don't want gigabytes of data downloaded they have no use for, they have to turn off an option that gives them timely security updates.
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#19This is really infuriating... Microsoft, what the hell?
I really hope steam machines take off (and stay relatively open). As soon as I'm happy with the number of games Linux supports I'm dropping windows like a rock.
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#20So why are we allowing Microsoft to get away with it?
Why are we allowing any of the corporations, governments, and police departments to get away with any of the stupid shit they continuously do? Mostly because it would take a significant act of power to do anything about it, power which we don't have and even if we do, we do not wish to exercise. The exercising of which would probably cause more problems in the short term than it would solve. Most people will not do a…
> Mostly because it would take a significant act of power to do anything about it, power which we don't have and even if we do, we do not wish to exercise.
It starts a step before that - awareness. Most folks aren't aware of the things that are done, and even of those who are only a minor subset consider these things to be a problem.
Lack of motivation to try to make change winnows out most of those who get past the first two problems. The unfortunate truth is that of the small subset who are aware and offended, most simply have higher priorities.