• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    How much longer till Microsoft uses Windows computers across the world as a botnet. For working on it’s AI. Or some other bullshit.

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      lmao its a matter of time before MS decides they need to DDoS someone so hard their data center explodes and they’ll be ready to do it

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        Not sure if it’s still a thing but I remember they also used windows to distribute updates to other windows PCs in a bittorrent-like fashion.

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          Blizzard used to do that as well with world of Warcraft updates IIRC ( during vanilla )

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          It still does it. The only thing is that the awareness of this feature was spread in a way to make it sound like it was just stealing your internet for nothing (which looking at it one way, it was) so most people just turned it off.

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          Honestly that can be a good thing, especially if you have more than one windows PC in your household, it’s only downloading them once then sharing the updates about over the LAN