[malux85]

Holy smoke - this isn't very good.

My parents in NZ only get 1 or 2 GB a month ... this would have cost them a fortune.

Fortunately I switched them to mac last year.

Microsoft : You suck.

[wyldfire]

iOS downloads updates in advance of you agreeing to executing them. Maybe OS X does the same?

I suppose iOS, Windows, and others all have an opt-out for this feature.

[crishoj]

Since iOS 7 or so, iOS updates have been incremental, sized in megabytes, not multi-gigabyte blobs.

[kalleboo]

iOS 8 was a 1 GB update (or even bigger for some devices)

[wyldfire]

Sounds like a great feature.

[AjithAntony]

Windows 8 and up can accommodate metered connections

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/metered-interne...

[9872]

I think you will find that it is your parents' ISP who sucks.

[pdabbadabba]

Why not both?

(Also bear in mind the realities for a New Zealand ISP. I suspect that a large portion of their traffic comes from overseas, and capacity ain't free on whatever undersea cables happen to land in NZ...)

[tbrock]

Yeah but, if unpatched, it would have downloaded more as part of a botnet.

[detaro]

Windows 10 is not a "a patch"

[Karunamon]

Windows Update downloads more than "patches". It has been used in the past to distribute standalone tools and service packs.

[function_seven]

It has never wholesale upgraded the OS to a new major version. Nobody expects it to.

[9872]

And that's a large part of why Windows security has always been terrible. While we may not have expected it, that just means we were pleasantly surprised.

[cousin_it]

A security update shouldn't take 6 GB of space.

[9872]

How much space should it take?

[ubercow13]

Windows 8.1 is supported until 2018