Stealthy new 'feature' in Win10

[GinBoy2]

An interesting article on the new 'Windows Update Delivery Optimization' feature included at no extra charge by your friends at Microsoft...

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Windows-10-piggy-backs-your-bandwidth-to-distribute-patches-134671

[Chicog]

So turn it off.

And leave it on for computers in your own network.

[GinBoy2]

Mine is well and truly off, but I wonder how many users will continue totally oblivious of it running in the background, turning their machine into an MS bittorrent?

[Chicog]

Mine is well and truly off, but I wonder how many users will continue totally oblivious of it running in the background, turning their machine into an MS bittorrent?

'Tis a good question, but if you have more than one PC on your network, it's actually doing you a favour.