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Have you updated your computer to Windows 10 yet? If so, one hopes you’re aware of one of its less well-known features – that could mean that your internet bandwidth and data plan is being used to ...

Windows 10, which by default will download updates automatically, appears to be hijacking customers' bandwidth to distribute those same updates to others. The technology is known as Windows Update ...

Until now, updates to Windows and other Microsoft products were downloaded only from Microsoft servers. Windows Update connected to Microsoft servers, checked if any updates were available, and if ...

A default feature on the new Windows 10 named Windows Update Delivery Optimization utilizes a user's connection to the Internet to share updates to other users that are online. Much hype surrounded ...

Thanks to Dr Bob for this yarn reported by ZDNet – a sneaky trick in Win10 to nobble your bandwidth for Microsoft purposes. The story runs: “If you’ve upgraded to Windows 10 then Microsoft could be ...

Microsoft will use its customers’ upload bandwidth to deliver Windows 10’s updates and apps with a peer-to-peer technology resembling BitTorrent, a fact that has caught some by surprise. Baked into ...

Microsoft today updated the Windows 10 beta, switching on a controversial technology that commandeers users’ upload bandwidth to shift some responsibility for updating from the company’s own servers.

Some new Windows 10 users have been caught off guard by a new peer-to-peer service in the OS that relies on a customer's upload bandwidth to distribute updates and apps. Some new Windows 10 users have ...