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Microsoft To End Nagging Windows 10 Upgrade Notifications In July (theverge.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the counting-down-the-days dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft has officially announced today it will end the annoying "Get Windows 10" notifications in July, when they end the free Windows 10 upgrade offer. In a statement to WinBeta, Microsoft said in a comment: "Details are still being finalized, but on July 29th the Get Windows 10 app that facilitates the easy upgrade to Windows 10 will be disabled and eventually removed from PCs worldwide. Just as it took time to ramp up and roll out the Get Windows 10 app, it will take time to ramp it down." This is great news for users who have decided to not install Windows 10 for whatever reason. Earlier this week, it was reported that the Windows 10 update has been ruining pro-graming streams. In April, the Windows 10 upgrade screen interrupted a meteorologist's live forecast.

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  1. Re:Still wont be safe to turn on automatic updates by SeaFox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Citation?

    And did they add this 'spyware' after the releases of later operating systems?

    We don't need to cite that data harvesting makes a company money. It's literally the business plan of several dot-coms.
    As far as them adding the telemetry to earlier versions of Windows, it's common knowledge now.
    http://techne.alaya.net/?p=124...

    I have personally deselected and hidden these updates only to see them get un-hidden and added automatically as Recommended updates to download and install at a later date. I'd also like to note this had happened more than once with some of these individual updates, and it often happens when I get a large (15-30 updates) list at once from Microsoft. These large groups of updates are not "backed up" updates I have missed since last time. I have Windows Update run as a startup item when I log in to my computer, so I'm manually checking for updates every day on my PC. And every day I get an update for the Windows Defender definitions. But once in awhile I get a dozen or so "important" updates for Windows itself, and it's quite coincidental that one of the updates I had previously hidden is added into that list.

    Seems like a orchestrated attempt to get me to install it. Stick it in a large list, and I'm more likely to just say "install all" than actually read the KBs for each or compare them to a list of known problem ones.

    Tell me, if these updates are so harmless, why is Microsoft so vehement I install them after I tell them once I don't want them?