[dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha

[Jim Lawrence]

You wouldn't want to deprive Microsoft of making a good profit even it costs you? After all they are giving their OS away for free. ;-)

PS. Can you not find a WiFi hotspot in which to connect to?

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 9:13:11 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha

Yea, unless they are using my PC hitting the internet over my phone 
wifi, where I pay for every byte of data.

John W. Colby

On 8/1/2015 12:06 AM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Microsoft doesn't say it formally but it appears that they are using a torrent network to distribute their updates. It is actually a great method for broadcasting a fairly large amount of data without the initial servers being adversely impacted.
>
> Jim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John W. Colby" <jwcolby at gmail.com>
> To: "DBA Tech" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 6:58:50 PM
> Subject: [dba-Tech] Little Windows 10 gotcha
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>
> http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2015/07/30/windows-10-steals-your-bandwidth-to-send-other-people-updates/
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