Microsoft's forced Windows 10 installation could cost lives
Posted by Ed Lasher on 3rd Jun 2016
Wow. Just wow.
Reddit user /u/zambuka42 is a pilot and IT guy working with anti-poaching rangers in the Central African bush. After finding that Windows 10 had secretly downloaded and installed on one of their machines, he has good reason to be angry:
Aside from the fact that we pay per MB, and already share a slow connection, if a forced upgrade happened and crashed our pc's while in the middle of coordinating rangers under fire from armed militarized poachers.. blood could literally be on MS's hands.
/u/zambuka42
No word yet on just how much the 6GB download cost on their pay-per-MB plan, but some estimates in the comments section put it at over $30,000.
For the rest, check out the post on /r/technology.
Edit (10:18 AM, 6/3/16): I previously stated that Windows 10 had installed itself. That was an error. It did, however, download.