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Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com)
Mark Wilson writes: Microsoft has been accused of pushing Windows 10 rather aggressively, and the company's latest move is going to do nothing to silence these accusations. For Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, Windows 10 just became a 'recommended update' in Windows Update.
This is a change from the previous categorization of the upgrade as an 'optional update' and it means that there is renewed potential for unwanted installations. After the launch of Windows 10, there were numerous reports of not only the automatic download of OS installation files, but also unrequested upgrades. The changed status of the update means that, on some machines, the installation of Windows 10 could start automatically.
This is a change from the previous categorization of the upgrade as an 'optional update' and it means that there is renewed potential for unwanted installations. After the launch of Windows 10, there were numerous reports of not only the automatic download of OS installation files, but also unrequested upgrades. The changed status of the update means that, on some machines, the installation of Windows 10 could start automatically.
What's the KB code number so I can hide it?
Next it will be a critical update.
I've made it my business to never do what Microsoft recommends. That has served me well over the years.
Windows Revenue is down 50% because of the mobile revolution. Then there are technologies like Citrix that are challenging Microsoft's dominance in corporate America.
The new business model is obvious; monetize non-business customers by trapping them in a windows through a walled garden while selling their personal information to the highest bidder while protecting the corporate deployment base.
Microsoft thinks all their customers are mom and dad surfing e-mail on their home pc's when in reality they just killed tens of thousands of small businesses, small pc shops, SOHO offices and so forth running windows PC's with legacy code. This is the knucklehead moment where they behead themselves and the market realizes just how dangerous Microsoft really is. They are going to tick off a lot of people and impress nobody if they pull this off successfully; given the state of the market and computers in general I doubt they are going to get out of this unscathed.
And after all they work of training users to keep systems patched, Microsoft goes out and makes patches a bad thing. Nice move!
Yep. They just made all those alternatives (Android tablets, chrombooks, Mac, Linux...) a lot more attractive.
At least I wasn't told to reimage the PC...
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That's .... ugly. I had no idea.
So what? The value of a Windows 7/8/8.1 user is $0 to Microsoft. The value of a Windows 10 user is $x per year. The only thing that matters is converting as many people as possible to Windows 10. If in the process they break a PC that cannot possibly run Window 10, then it's not a loss.
In other words they're making it as difficult as possible to avoid upgrading.
At this point I expect that the supposed cutoff date will roll around, and then one of two things will happen:
1) They start charging whatever they're charging for it. But it won't stop being a "Recommended" update for 7 and 8.1. Meaning of course that some loser will turn updates back on or boot up a laptop that spent seven months without a battery, get updated, and suddenly find their copy of Windows 10 isn't licensed and they have a thirty day countdown. Pay up, sucker.
2) Nothing happens. It remains free. Eventually Microsoft will get around to yanking the updates, but probably not before something like option one happens. Credits to carrots the nagware will stick around though, just different. And no way are the telemetry updates getting removed.
Look deep into your heart. Which one do you think is gonna happen?
You should turn signatures off.
Because it's MY MACHINE, perhaps?
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
When a business no longer provides a worthwhile product or service which it can sell, it switches to lock-in/rent-seeking mode.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I just turned off windows updates on my win8.1 netbook. Sure, it might get rooted by random internet script-kiddies, but that's still better than a 100% chance of immediately getting rooted by Microsoft's own script-kiddies.
Windows Update is simply no longer trustworthy.
" Iâ(TM)ve heard reports from credible sources of layoffs at Slashdot, with many longtime employees being shown the door, with their jobs either eliminated or handed over to less costly and relatively inexperienced staff. Goodwill or no, this canâ(TM)t have a positive effect on the siteâ(TM)s usersâ(TM) experience."
It can hardly get any worse, can it? The longtime employees weren't doing their jobs. The editors didn't edit, we still can't copy and paste without stupid characters appearing in the copy, they would post at least one dupe a week...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
I don't know why MS is pushing this update so crazy hard. But it's made me NOT want to install it...not ever. I actually was interested in upgrading to Win10 at first. But seeing how aggressively they're pushing it has made me suspicious that something skeevy is going on here behind the scenes. No way am I going to install it now.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Seriously, the Win10 upgrade crap has reached the point where it's effectively malware.
AV/Anti-Malware providers need to start killing it on an automated basis.
And a lawsuit needs to be brought against Microsoft for infecting their users computers with it.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
Jeebus, look at how complicated those instructions are just to disable it. If they had wanted to they could have made it a simple checkbox in the install pop-up.
Yes, but then people would have used it.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...