• yeehaw@lemmy.ca
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    4 months ago

    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.

    • fluckx@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

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

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      4 months ago

      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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      4 months ago

      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