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Now, 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 transparently serves updates to the entire world, to eat your bandwidth and conserve only Microsoft's.

Is there a word in English that captures how massively disappointed I am with this being on every Win10 computer and by default?

[1]: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2007100908224845...

parent striking 11 years ago

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