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by Spooky23 3321 days ago
Windows has done this forever with enabled apps like SCCM. I think it was released in 2008.

It allowed us to remove hundreds of local depot servers unless there was an SLA on reimaging.
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hendersoon 3321 days ago
Yes, but you needed to configure that. This comes enabled by default. And on Windows Home/Pro, it downloads updates from third-parties on the internet too.
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jhasse 3321 days ago
> This comes enabled by default. And on Windows Home/Pro, it downloads updates from third-parties on the internet too.

What's the problem? I guess it still receives the hashes signed from Microsoft.

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