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Microsoft's Get Windows 10 App, KB 3035583, Reappears (infoworld.com)
An anonymous reader shares an InfoWorld article: Once again, Microsoft has unleashed the GWX Kraken, with no explanation and no description. The latest KB 3035583 appears as a "Recommended" optional patch for Windows 7 and 8.1. Those with Automatic Update turned on and "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" checked -- the default settings -- will see the patch as a checked, optional update, and it will be installed the next time Automatic Update runs. If you previously hid KB 3035583, it's now unhidden. I'm sure there are a dozen people on earth who still have Auto Updates turned on, "Recommended updates" checked, and who haven't yet accepted Microsoft's kind invitation for a free copy of Windows 10. This one's for them. In late March 2015, Microsoft released the first version of KB 3035583. Described as "Update enables additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1," the patch immediately raised eyebrows. In April of last year, a German researcher named Gerard Himmelein, writing at heise.de, figured out that Microsoft was sneaking a Windows 10 upgrader onto Win7 and 8.1 machines. Life for Win7 and 8.1 customers since then has degenerated into Win10 whack-a-mole.In some other news, Chinese news outlet Xinhua reports that plenty of users in China are unhappy about Microsoft's push to get them to mandatorily upgrade their Windows OS. "The company has abused its dominant market position and broken the market order for fair play," Xinhua quoted Zhao Zhanling, a legal adviser with the Internet Society of China, as saying.
I couldn't possibly think of a better way to sell Linux.
Anyone who ever thought that Windows was a useful product is a fucking idiot. They deserve what they get.
He publicly said there will be one billion devices running Win 10 within one year of its release, and by hook or by crook he'll do it.
Are you talking about the "warnings" where your only two options are "now" or "later" and clicking the X to close the dialog installs Windows 10?
If you want software that helps you do what you want, then clearly don't get windows.
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Until this is over, the simplest thing to do is to disable Windows Update.
Get Never 10. It sets the Group Policy, that so far Microsoft isn't ignoring.
I have to have a single Windows 7 machine for a few apps, and though it's rarely turned on, so far I've been safe.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
What the FUCK are they thinking? I'm a paid customer for 20 years now and they think they can fuck with me like this?
Linux time, bitches. You forced me!
You and 1.2% of the user base. The other 98.8% will be generating ad and surveillance revenue for MS by running Windows 10.
They don't care about you as a customer.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Given the red X debacle it's "20 Nos and a no answer means Yes"
If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I bought a pair of binoculars.
And now realists are pointing out the level of hypocritical bullshit in claiming that "oh just go into the registry and flip this bit and then go set this GPO" or "google this random application and download it and run it with admin privileges" is now how grandma is expected to set up her computer on an OS that people keep claiming is "ready for the desktop".
FTFY. The only thing windows has going for it is that it comes "free" with the computer already installed. That's the only reason it has a 95% or whatever market share.
Every report I've seen about that has had methodology I've used to show Ubuntu, Fedora, et al sends your personal information all over the god damned world
Yes. Ubuntu sends relevant information required for the updating of the system. Microsoft sends personally harvested information for the purposes of marketing disguised as "customer improvement program". I actually really like Windows 10, but I am not even going to remotely defend this behaviour. At least with Ubuntu you can turn all the damn things off, with MS you're not given a choice.
Mine warns me like 2 days before it does it, and tells me it's scheduled for like 3am 2 days later. It lets me delay that stuff to a date and time of my choosing, and will put the updates in when I reboot if I finish up early and decide I can restart at that time.
A time of your choosing is sugarcoating a way of saying sometime during that night it will reboot. It will do so regardless if a program is blocking and will do so regardless of what you think your own update policy should be. Furthermore good luck to you if your computer is asleep for a few days and then you need to use it for a presentation only to sit there and have it go through it's update when you turn it on. My choice my arse. I like the ability for auto updates. I like that auto is the system default. I like that Windows 10 silently does it without much user gripe. Not giving someone the choice is indefensible.
You sent me a link to Windows 10 installing itself as a new operating system and moving the previous OS to a C:\windows.old directory.
Keep reading. In the process it SILENTLY removes software that isn't compatible. It doesn't give you the option to not upgrade, or warn you. It just does. This is indefensible especially given this is MS removing something that people paid money for. Do they now get a refund?
Is Google Chrome immune from Microsoft setting its home page to Bing?
Oh I'm glad you mentioned this, especially since every update seems to set Edge back to the default browser, and regardless of what you set your default browser too if you search via Cortana it'll open up in Edge.
Windows 10 is a great solid OS, but some of the design decision mentioned here aren't just a letdown, they are the kind of thing that you can only come up with when smoking weed with MBAs. Speaking of weed, if you think that 2/3rds of what was posted above doesn't affect the vast majority of users then maybe you should let your own THC levels drop a bit before posting.
If Microsoft could somehow figure a way to roofie Win7/8 users who continue to deny its Win10 advances, I bet it would.
You and 1.2% of the user base.
Normally I would agree with this sentiment. But Windows 10 is only being adopted at a marginally faster rate than Windows 7.
And Windows 10 is free.
And Windows 10 upgrades are so easy people are doing it by accident.
And Microsoft is using every dirty trick it can to make those numbers better.
Given that colossal failure evident in the statistics I think you may actually find more than 1.2% of users have had enough of MS's shit.