Posted on 08/31/2016 10:24:52 PM PDT by dayglored
Happy Win 7 user here with all updates turned off. MSFT can take Win 10 and stuff it.
The whole idea that MSFT is allowed to take “stuff” from our computers is ridiculous. There’s no accounting.
My Internet access is on a pay as you go basis. MSFT is, in effect, making me pay for them harvesting my data. Outrageous!
“Optimization” == STEALING my hardware cycles and bandwidth to distribute their spyware. Hmmmm. I do not think that word means what you think it means.
Sheesh! Who do they think they are, the goobermint?
so the difference between WUDO (Windows Update Delivery Optimization) and WUSA (Windows Update Standalone Installer) is that WUDO shares bits upstream of your LAN whereas WUSA only makes localized updates available within the confines of a LAN?
Another one step forward and three steps back for Microsoft!
For years I struggled with keeping multiple machines updated on a metered connection and wished for something like WUSA where I could download once and then distribute internally. Microsoft is working with the technology but does so not as a partner but as some sort of pseudo-benefactor. Their attitude is increasingly that we aren’t intelligent enough to take care of our own gear and consequently they have to save us from ourselves.
Thanks for the alert.
You can be assured that this is secure as all Windows operating systems are.
No one minds having strangers using your computer to upload Microsoft updates...... or maybe depositing files as some hacker somewhere will figure out how to do so and do so onto millions of pc’s at once.
Microsoft Windows 10 spyware and now using your computer to share files. They are like some creepy guy looking into your window all the time.
At least using Bit torrent is voluntary. Socialism is deceitful and ultimately gives you no choice.
So, in other words, Windows 10 will now become a computer hog when updating. Am I correct?
I don't know about it becoming a "hog", but it does become a "server" for the Windows Update downloads -- transferring them from your computer to other computers. And it becomes a client of other similar computers that have been turned into ersatz "servers".
If all the computers are on the same local network (LAN), this has implications in network bandwidth (depending on how your switches are configured), disk bandwidth, and CPU usage.
If your computer is transferring the updates to computers out on the internet (that's the default), this has implications on your internet connection usage (billing), especially if you're charged per GB and/or have a "cap" of only so many GB per month.
If your computer is on the --receiving-- end of an internet transfer of updates, in addition to the usage/billing, there are security implications since you're basically downloading content that will execute with administrative privilege and install directly into your computer's operating system. I'm sure there are checksums and so forth that presumably would stop content that has been tampered with, --BUT-- by the time that check happens, it's already on your computer.
All in all, I think this is a bad idea. The opportunities for trouble are manifest.
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