They've used it for a while, I beleive it's techical term is 'Commercial Hybrid Content Delivery System'. Given the news they're now planning to use it for Windows Updates, at least I now know why I was previously jumped upon for critisizing it due to treating peoples PC's like P2P clients and using consumers bandwidth, hardware and energy to distribute content on the behalf of companies.
BitTorrent(i'm sure the backend for Microsoft's stuff is probably the same with some slight mods) for transferring files is extremely secure from tampering enroute. Either way.. the whole using consumers 'bandwidth, hardware, and energy?' No one cares so long as the connection terminates when the files finish downloading. The only thing they care about is getting their files in a timely manner at max download speed.
Keep in mind if they distribute Windows 10 by the Web(and probably issue you an install disk if you want one by mail for $20 or so), you're probably talking at the minimum a 5-20 gig download. I actually expect them to make it on by default.
Really.. nobody cares and its sort of expected as the sheer load from the first month is going to be ten shades of insane. Its going to dwarf anything that has come before it for sheer bandwidth usage.
Hi there
Several perfectly LEGIT Linux distros are distributed via Torrents -- Torrents only have a bad name because of where the trackers originate from (those sites blocked for distributing copyright material etc).
-There's NOTHING wrong in legitimate torrents -especially in the days of decently fast Internet.
S.E.T.I. (hardly a rogue organisation) often uses P2P systems in doing its work.
cheers
jimbo
If using the Linux distribution method, updates do not touch unofficial PC's - they are distributed via official repositories all around the world - works great.
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