cowpatz wrote:Very presumptuous of Microsoft.
As far as I can see, almost everything MS has done with Win10 is illegal here in Oz. Readers' Digest has been prosecuted and fined several times, for using the same 'double negative' opt in / out method to trick people into accepting terms and payments for stuff they don't want. I don't see why they (MS) cannot be charged with theft (of bandwidth) .
If you take something of mine, with the intention of permanently depriving me of the use of it, that is theft.
I pay for 15GB / 30 days. Microsoft say that accepting Win10 means I agree to let them use as much of my bandwidth as they feel like, without advising me further. In Win7 I can say 'tell me when updates are available and let me decide when to d/load and install them, I'm OK with that - but for W10, MS want to push (= download to my 'poota at their convenience) and then tell me the new stuff is ready to
install.So with 500MB as a daily allowance, I could find that MS, without my informed consent, can chew up 20 MB of bandwidth. For me that means dial-up speed until the monthly renewal. For a lot of other people it means penalty charges for exceeding their bandwidth allowance, and those charges can be as much as AUD$3 / MB. Why has it not been challenged? It is dead-set criminal.