When you're stuck in the middle of the Central African Republic (CAR) trying to protect the wildlife from armed poachers and the Lord's Resistance Army (Kony), then life's pretty tough.
And now Microsoft has made it tougher with Windows 10 upgrades.
The Chinko Project manages roughly 17,600 square kilometres (6,795 square miles) of rainforest and savannah in the east of the CAR, near the border with South Sudan. Money is tight, and so is internet bandwidth.
So the staff was more than a little displeased when one of the donated laptops the team uses began upgrading to Windows 10 automatically, pulling in gigabytes of data over a radio link.
And it's not just bandwidth bills they have to worry about.
"If a forced upgrade happened and crashed our PCs while in the middle of coordinating rangers under fire from armed militarized poachers, blood could literally be on Microsoft's hands," said one member of the team.
This is not a one-off case.
We're reading about similar incidents everyday.
Automatic updates, accidental automatic update, and the humongous data that these updates eat are ruining user experience for many.
These are real issues.
It's been roughly a year since Windows 10 has been officially available to consumers, and Microsoft is yet to address the issue.
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