Windows 10

[Ravenshire]

A buddy posted this to an email list I belong to.

http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/001116.html

: Windows 10's New Feature Steals Your Internet Bandwidth

Pretty bad. But we have even lower to go, as we've seen that by default, Windows 10 actually steals bandwidth from your ISP connection so that Microsoft can use your computer, and your connection, to send MS updates to their other customers.
Huh? Say what?
Yep. It's a devious little feature called Windows Update Delivery Optimization. It's enabled by default. For Enterprise and Education users, it operates over the local LAN. For ordinary Home type users, Microsoft can send their data update goodies to potentially any PC on the global Internet -- from your PC, over your Internet connection. On your dime.
We could get into the pros and cons of local updates being staged between local machines on a LAN as opposed to the outside Internet.

Someone with a load more of technical expertise than I will need to weigh in on this.

Apparently it can be shut off.... but that doesn't make it pass the smell test.

After years of decrying bittorrent for software distribution, M$ has now included a proprietary version in their OS. Fucke these hypocritical bastards.