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Or perhaps the default should have been "PCs on my local network."

I knew this feature was coming (wasn't paying attention to the details of it, though) and actually thought it is a great feature for actually "reducing" bandwidth usage.

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Yeah, that's a good idea too. Kind of WSUS for the home.

The article does say Windows 10 Enterprise and Education have the feature enabled, but only for the local network.

So at least that's a sensible default for business/schools.

It'll actually wreck havoc on a lot of small businesses, actually.

A lot of smaller businesses where operating system upgrades/update cycles are ad hoc, and mostly on whatever comes with their new PCs (which usually is Home editions) and won't or can't upgrade to Enterprise. (I don't know if the Pro version's also set up the same way -- but even then, I wouldn't say there's great incentive/reason there, too, anyways.)

You're right, I hadn't thought of it that way. And, no, the Pro version behaves the same as Home in this case. even more reason for it to be off default and opt in only.

Yeah, I don't even know what Microsoft is thinking then -- practically, the Pro version would be the highest edition accessible to most of small businesses.

There seems to be a lot of poor choices Microsoft decided make on Windows 10... (Wi-fi Sense, and then this...)

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