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The user benefits as well: if you have multiple machines in your home, only one set of updates will be downloaded and all your machines will share it. Until now
by Renaud 11y ago
The user benefits as well: if you have multiple machines in your home, only one set of updates will be downloaded and all your machines will share it. Until now, each machine had to download its own updates.
- AmVess 11y agoThat's not the point. The point is that MS defaulted to using your bandwidth to send update data to other users over the internet P2P style. If MS were benevolent, they would have made this an opt in feature, not the default behavior. They have the option of sending updates to PC on your local network, but that isn't selected by default.
- dogma1138 11y agoSo did spotify, if they didn't then no one will opt-in not because they care about their "privacy" but because it takes effort and knowledge. They set the LAN option for enterprise and education SKU's not because they care about their privacy but because the network setup will not make it functional as UPNP and other types of port knocking are not something which is available in an enterprise environment.
- jlgaddis 11y agoUPNP and/or port knocking typically aren't available in an enterprise network because they aren't needed or wanted. Neither of those is necessary for P2P delivery of updates, though. I think they turned it off by default for those customers because Microsoft knows the ass chewing they'd get if they didn't. Besides, a typical large enterprise is already going to have a system in place to handle the delivery of updates (e.g., WSUS, SCCM, or whatever they're using/calling it nowadays) to PCs such that the bandwidth savings aren't going to as noticeable.