Microsoft released Windows 10 to the world this Wednesday and the response has been terrific, with more than 16 upgrades per second. In order to deal with the considerable amount of data this would require, Microsoft acquired as much as 40Tbps with all of the major CDNs - the company was already consuming 10Tbps when that article was written.
In order to alleviate some of the load on its servers and allow users to upgrade faster, however, Microsoft has introduced what it calls Windows Update Delivery Optimization, which works similar to a torrent, hosting the install files on local PCs and then propagating them to other PCs on either your local network or the internet.
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-using-customersbandwidth-to-deliver-windows-updates
In order to alleviate some of the load on its servers and allow users to upgrade faster, however, Microsoft has introduced what it calls Windows Update Delivery Optimization, which works similar to a torrent, hosting the install files on local PCs and then propagating them to other PCs on either your local network or the internet.
http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-is-using-customersbandwidth-to-deliver-windows-updates
