Holy smoke - this isn't very good. My parents in NZ only get 1 or 2 GB a month ....

wyldfire · on Sept 11, 2015

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 · on Sept 11, 2015

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

kalleboo · on Sept 11, 2015

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

wyldfire · on Sept 11, 2015

Sounds like a great feature.

AjithAntony · on Sept 11, 2015

Windows 8 and up can accommodate metered connections

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

9872 · on Sept 11, 2015

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

pdabbadabba · on Sept 11, 2015

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...)

powerbook5300CS · on Sept 11, 2015

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

detaro · on Sept 11, 2015

Windows 10 is not a "a patch"

Karunamon · on Sept 11, 2015

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

function_seven · on Sept 11, 2015

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

9872 · on Sept 11, 2015

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 · on Sept 11, 2015

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

9872 · on Sept 11, 2015

How much space should it take?

ubercow13 · on Sept 11, 2015

Windows 8.1 is supported until 2018