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Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by astrodust »

rubidium wrote: post #14

Headline 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."

OS X keeps harassing me to update to the latest version because I have automatic updates on and haven't turned the notifications off, but it hasn't gone and downloaded the new OS pre-emptively without my consent.

Asking first wouldn't hurt, you know!

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by ubercow13 »

tbrock wrote: post #28
malux85 wrote: post #13

Holy 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.

Yeah but, if unpatched, it would have downloaded more as part of a botnet.

Windows 8.1 is supported until 2018

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by satanrepents »

astrodust wrote: post #31
rubidium wrote: post #14

Headline 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."

OS X keeps harassing me to update to the latest version because I have automatic updates on and haven't turned the notifications off, but it hasn't gone and downloaded the new OS pre-emptively without my consent. Asking first wouldn't hurt, you know!

Then it's not really "automatic updates". If it was truly automatic, it would download and even install without asking because you already said yes.

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by pasbesoin »

In yet another fashion, MS demonstrating its considerable disconnect from and lack of understanding of (and/or apparent will to understand) a significant portion of its "average users".

A lot of people have space and bandwidth limitations. We don't all live it the land of huge capacity and unmetered fiber connections.

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by detaro »

tbrock wrote: post #28
malux85 wrote: post #13

Holy 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.

Yeah but, if unpatched, it would have downloaded more as part of a botnet.

Windows 10 is not a "a patch"

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by pdkl95 »

teaneedz wrote: post #8
x5n1 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Agreed, most will probably do nothing that's an inconvenience. It just seems that Windows 10 should be causing us all to leave Windows completely since it is out rightly not respecting users and not even caring about it. Linux time.

Most will probably do nothing because they don't see an alternative, and so they are resigned to using products they know are harmful.

https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/publications/tradeoff-...

edit: fixed URL I copied from the wrong tab

Re: Microsoft Is Downloading 6GB of Windows 10 Updates Without User’s Consent

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Post by wyldfire »

malux85 wrote: post #13

Holy 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.

iOS downloads updates in advance of you agreeing to executing them. Maybe OS X does the same?

I suppose iOS, Windows, and others all have an opt-out for this feature.

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