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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.
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.
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)
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.