The leaked version of Windows 10 construct 10036 (the electrical flow version is construct 9926) allows you lot to catch OS updates from Microsoft every bit good every bit other computers, whether they're on your local network or on the Internet.
Yeah, it's a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) engineering Microsoft is going to purpose inward guild to deliver both app as well as operating organisation updates.
Peer-to-Peer, or P2P Technology is commonly associated alongside file sharing services similar BitTorrent to download illicit copies of movies as well as albums, as well as of course, those endless Linux ISOs you've been downloading.
However, Redmond is embracing the engineering every bit an efficient agency to deliver software updates to its users roughly the globe.
Peer-to-Peer downloads volition hold out optional inward Windows 10. The novel dialog box titled "Choose how you lot download updates" offers Windows users an alternative to "Download apps as well as OS updates from multiple sources to larn them to a greater extent than quickly".
Once turned ON, the alternative delivers you lot choices to
- Download apps as well as OS updates from Microsoft as well as PCs on my local network
- Download apps as well as OS updates from Microsoft, PCs on my local network, as well as PCs on the Internet
Besides accelerating the upgrade process, P2P characteristic could salve precious bandwidth if you lot accept a multiple PCs inward your house.
Redmond's deed is non at all surprising, every bit the software maker bought Pando Networks inward 2013, which is the maker of a peer-to-peer file sharing technology, similar to BitTorrent.
So far, the leaked screenshot is non confirmed past times the companionship neither it released whatever official announcement, but you lot tin hold off the novel liberate of an official Windows 10 preview presently that volition probable include the novel changes.
However, if Microsoft actually includes P2P engineering for updating its software, it volition hold out an interesting alternative for enabling distributed updates, rather than updating through Windows Server Update Services. Home users powerfulness appreciate the faster downloads that volition come upward alongside peer-to-peer downloads.
