14 DAY TRIAL // Earlier this week, a change that Microsoft implemented in preview builds of Windows 10 Creators Update made everyone believe that the company could end up ignoring the metered connections and send large updates to systems even if this setting is enabled.
And in a statement released this morning, the firm says that while big updates won’t be shipped to PCs on metered connections, it could still send some critical fixes to these machines.
“We don’t plan to send large updates over metered connections, but could use this for critical fixes if needed in the future,” Microsoft says.
In other words, the software giant could ignore the metered connection setting and still push updates to Windows 10 devices that aren’t using a broadband Internet connection in order to make sure specific issues are fixed.
The company provides no information as to what critical fixes mean and how large they could be, but it’s most likely referring to a few megabytes in the case of zero-day vulnerabilities that are being exploited in the wild. On the other hand, you can bet that Microsoft won’t ship cumulative updates to systems on metered connections because the size of these updates is continuously increasing and this month they have exceeded 1GB.
Scarce info
On the other hand, Microsoft should clearly provide more information on what systems with metered connections could receive, as the existing information is scarce to say the least.
The official statement provides little details on this, while the notification posted in Windows Update on systems running the latest Creators Update build is vague as well.
“We’ll automatically download and install updates, except on metered connections (where charges may apply). In that case, we’ll automatically download only those updates required to keep Windows running smoothly,” this message reads.
With the Creators Update just around the corner, expect Microsoft to provide more information on this very soon, especially because there are lots of computers out there on metered connections that could risk exceeding their data plans should large updates be pushed.