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by sangnoir 2939 days ago
> I can't force my older relatives to update their machines or even stop them from running ancient versions of Windows. On that front, Windows 10 made things better.

Unless your older relative is on a metered internet connection that charges downloads by the MB, costing them hundreds of dollars[1] on a speculative download that the user did not ask for.

[1] http://stopthecap.com/2015/08/18/microsofts-windows-10-updat...

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Maybe the real outrage should be directed at ISPs charging by the megabyte.