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Windows 10 Upgrade Reportedly Starting Automatically On Windows 7 PCs (softpedia.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Many users have confirmed in the comment section of a popular reddit post that "Windows 7 computers are being reported as automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade without permission." It's no secret that Microsoft wants users to upgrade to their new OS. Earlier in the year, Windows 10 was set as a 'recommended update' so when you install new security or bug patches, the new OS is selected by default as well. Terry Myerson, head of the OS group at Microsoft, warned users about the possibility of the OS automatically installing. "Depending upon your Windows Update settings, this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device. Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose whether or not to continue," he said. Whether or not the recent outcry is caused from users forgetting to deselect the Windows 10 upgrade in the update list or Microsoft updating Windows 7 PCs without users' permission, the good news is that you have 30 days to downgrade to the previous version of the OS.
Will someone please sue these fuckers!
Please?
Changes like this means that we no longer will trust Microsoft and disabling Windows Update may be the only reliable option.
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker would destroy civilization.
Either Incompetent or Malicious. Or Both.
Whichever applies, you should uninstall this Windows-thing crap immediately.
First time, I can accept incompetent. The second, the third and the forth? Hello? Are you fucking kidding me?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI!?
Sadly, the majority of the population is too brain dead to do this, even with extensive help, not to mention the other issue of a re-install wiping out all their files (pictures, documents, etc) that they have never bothered to back up anywhere.
I see a bunch of advice about how to jump through multiple flaming hoops to stay with Windows 7. Each works for a while and then MS sends out a new load of malware to again corrupt your PC. So here's the question:
WHY THE HELL ARE YOU NOT MIGRATING TO SOMETHING ELSE??!!!?
Just leave him. The abuse will not stop!
What's the over/under on when MS will flag GWX Control Panel as malware and have a "security update" remove it?
My money is on 60 days.
Ian Ameline
Being in the EULA doesn't make it automatically legal. You can write stuff like "By pressing AGREE you AGREE to give us a million dollars, your wife, and all your future earnings" , but no court will see it as a binding agreement. The only legal stuff in the EULA is things like copying and reselling softare, trademarks, things like that. Most of those are already made law so the EULA is more like a reminder that these laws exist, not that the EULA magically allows any laws that the company wants to make true for their own benefit.
It's in the EULA
Citation needed.
Please show us the EULA from Win7 that gives M$ permission to shove Win10 down our throats.
After all, we did pay for Win7, so we have the right to use it as long as we want to.