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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by hebdo on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:07PM (#10056097)
This seems to be one of the real costs of upgrading to the latest version of Windows. In this case your mom has to pay the bills, but in general I'm curious how long will it take for ISPs to launch a solid campaign against Microsoft, like they did with Netflix.
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by technojunkie on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:13PM (#10056136)
How is this a real cost, is there an estimate of how many bytes are sent and received and at what interval? If it was anywhere in the thousands of megabytes regularly, maybe that's the real cost but that's just an assumption.
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Re:Even when told not to, Windows 10 doesn't stop talking to... by hebdo on Thursday August 13, 2015 @02:20PM (#10056176)
Not quite sure what is your point here. The amount of megabytes transferred each month does not have to be any particular fixed number to become a burden for the user, or the ISP. We can see that at least in one case (and probably many more) such a cost can exceed $200. All of this without user's consent.

Microsoft, please get your stuff together. Hire some privacy aware people.

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