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yup theyve been trying even harder to get more people on windows 10 im glad i installed win 10 on my own accord so i dont come home and find it on my pc :D
Glad my Win7 does not know about Win10...
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They made it a "recommended" thing a while back, so it triggers on more computers.
If you don't want it, I would recommend connecting your laptop to a power source, installing KB3050267, and using the directions specified here if your computer supports group policy to disable updating to Win10. An alternative is to use Never10 (which does the same thing). Lots of reboots are advised.
im keeping my vulnerable pc's off until the free upgrade period is over.
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Gosh looks like youre screwed lol.
Unless you do want to upgrade to Windows10 ofc.
I suppose this is the new popup that some articles on the internet talked about.
Wenn you click on the X you pretty much agree with the upgrade.
I had this happen too, I've been getting a kick out of just how absurd Windows 10 has gotten. Does this list of options not look suspicious to the average person?
Your options rephrased are: Get Windows 10
Get Windows 10 later
Go to Windows Update to get Windows 10
Learn about Windows 10
I can only hope Windows 10 has permanently and entirely ruined Microsoft reputation. Forcing someone to basically turn their computer into a brick for 90 minutes with no real way to say no other than scouring the internet to find a specific update number and then finding out how to delete that specific update is simply too shady. The false flagging/trolling/shilling for Windows 10 is shocking to see too.
Might be relevant.
http://wccftech.com/microsoft-is-back-with-windows-10-dirty-tricks-on-windows-7-8-1/
Yeah I just clicked the X and the box closed then 15 min later it restarted. I was only able to stop it by the holding down the power button as it started to restart.
i was late to start work because i turned my pc on an hour before i started. came to start work 5 mins before my shift and windows 10 was 28% installed. it really sucks that they do that. (work from home, so i wasnt physically at work, thats why it made me late)
In any corporate environment, updates should be locked down and controlled, or they'll be using an enterprise edition of Windows which is why it is not an issue as far as they can tell(as most consumers get the OS with their device and don't pay for it, so M$ could give a fuck less what you say).
Honestly I disagree entirely with the delivery, but I fully understand why Microsoft is wanting to do this, and why it needs to be forced in order for it to actually happen. Honestly almost all the users I know(and even a lot of our clients sadly enough) are more than willing to wait until the day their computer has a physical hardware issue or the cost to replace it is the same(or similar) as the cost of a new device in order to do that. Great Idea, horrible execution.
If this was true, it isn't because the cost of licensing the operating system is factored in to every device you buy, you pay a price for the OS same as memory or any other aspect including branding and marketing.
I do disagree also that MS doesn't care, they do, but they are looking at turning a profit, while traditionally that profit (ROI) has been generated through sales of the licensing of the OS they are now changing the method to a business model closer to their competitors (Apple & Google). The major problem is that MS is and has always been terrible at implementing new ways of doing business getting it terribly wrong almost every time, this is no exception.
But they have the numbers (installed base of Windows users) so odds are they can screw up pretty bad and still recover which will probably happen, sure they are going to loose users, sure they are going to force updates and upgrades to Win X because they need the number of Win X installs to grow to unprecedented numbers as fast as it can happen which is why you see the forced upgrades.
MS has almost all of it's eggs riding in the basket that is Win X, the fate and future of MS has been bet on massive adoption of the OS because they want a business model like Apple and Google has where the OS is basically free but tied to a app store where you buy your software....a closed eco-system, walled garden, whatever you want to call it.
Harvesting data is the other profit potential both for use internally (targeted ads, personalized services) and to sale to other companies, it's a huge basically untapped market for MS and I'm surprised it's taken them this long to figure out how to access and acquire that data, but yeah their forced implantation sucks, there will be a blow-back for MS from it's user base, and eventually the Windows update/upgrade system is going to be hacked and hijacked out of their control, it's just a matter of time before that happens.
The bottom line here is that MS does care, but it cares more about profit, it is walking a very thin line between pissing off it's user base and gathering the necessary number of Win X installations, the numbers are not happening fast enough for MS so they are forcing the upgrades on users.
Of course this is just my opinion.
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The reason I say that they don't care about pissing off their users isn't because they don't care about user's opinion. Users currently have no other option at the same price point, as if I were to tell a majority of consumers about linux they would tilt their head and go "whats dat" in a Kentucky accent. While users may get pissed, they don't really have another option for a full laptop or desktop that they can use for Office and everything else. Sure Chromebooks exist and they could otherwise use a tablet, but that does NOT work in the same manner and is not a full fledged solution for really any situation. Windows will be in the workplace for a long time, and as long as it is, that's what the employees will use as it's what they know. Again, horrible execution on their plan, but at the end of the day there's not much to be done about it.
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Oh I agree with you 100%....I just thought the audience might need a little more background, Windows users are basically a captive market when it comes to usage, between games and productivity software there isn't another platform with the same level of available software or users.
But like I said above there will be blow-back, there will be a price MS will have to pay in some form, and because of the way they are pushing out up-dates and using other customers computers in a sudo-torrent to take the load off of their servers there will be a major hack of the up-date system that has the potential to create the largest bot-net that the world has ever seen...I know tinfoil hat stuff...lol
Would be a shame, if all Win10 machines started DDOSing Microsofts servers... Just saying!
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By default Pro installs(at least in the case of all of my and my client's PCs) will only download updates from other computers on the network. If you have a rogue computer on your network, Windows Update isn't the method of the day to do that distribution
Yeah, for the basic Windows user they have Win X configured to use the Windows Update Delivery Optimization turned on by default when it installs not many of those users understand what it is or how it works.