Even in remotest Africa, Windows 10 nagware ruins your day: Update burns satellite link cash

[steve2470]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/03/windows_10_upgrade_satellite_link/

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Protectors ... Anti-poachers on patrol for the Chinko Project https://www.vimeo.com/95532257

When you're stuck in the middle of the Central African Republic (CAR) trying to protect the wildlife from armed poachers and the Lord's Resistance Army, then life's pretty tough. And now Microsoft has made it tougher with Windows 10 upgrades.

The Chinko Project manages roughly 17,600 square kilometres (6,795 square miles) of rainforest and savannah in the east of the CAR, near the border with South Sudan. Money is tight, and so is internet bandwidth. So the staff was more than a little displeased when one of the donated laptops the team uses began upgrading to Windows 10 automatically, pulling in gigabytes of data over a radio link.

And it's not just bandwidth bills they have to worry about.

"If a forced upgrade happened and crashed our PCs while in the middle of coordinating rangers under fire from armed militarized poachers, blood could literally be on Microsoft's hands," said one member of the team.

more at link, very interesting article

[Wilms]

1. Is the W10 hijack a lawsuit waiting to happen?

[Ghost Dog]

4. Yes. n/t

[xynthee]

2. This forced upgrade shit needs to be stopped!

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. Time to give Linux a roll n/t