From the “why the hell would they think this is a good idea” department comes the news that our friends at Microsoft are downloading Windows 10 to PCs whether or not users have reserved a copy of it to download. What’s wrong with this? Say you have a cap in terms of the amount of data you can transfer across your Internet connection. This force download will basically eat about 4GB to 6GB of your cap. On top of that, that amount of disk space will simply “disappear” as well. All without your permission. According to a Microsoft statement given to The Inquirer, this will happen if you have automatic updates via Windows Update turned on. Thus that implies that if you have automatic updates turned off, this should be a non issue. That’s how I have my Windows 7 virtual machine set up and I don’t see any evidence that Microsoft has tried to force download Windows 10 onto my computer. But I will watch this and update this post if it does happen.
Here’s why this is an incredibly stupid idea on the part of Microsoft. I get that Microsoft would prefer that we all run their latest and greatest OS. It would make their lives easier as they would only have to write patches for one OS as opposed to having to write code for Windows 10, Windows 8.x, Windows 7.x and who know what else that they still support. It would also make us more secure in theory as Windows 10 has better security than previous efforts from Redmond. But it is my choice what OS I want to run and not Microsoft’s choice. Force feeding Windows 10 down users throats on top of not giving users the choice to install system updates or not is the sort of stupidity that makes people ditch PCs and run to Apple Stores to buy Macs because even Apple isn’t that dumb. Though there was that U2 album thing from last year. But at least that was a bunch of music files and not a 6GB operating system.
Microsoft is going to live to regret this. Mark my words.
UPDATE: Addictive Tips has a solution for this issue which involves uninstalling the KB3035583 update among other things.
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Microsoft Seems To Be Forcing You To Update To Windows 10…. WTF?? [UPDATED]
From the “why the hell would they think this is a good idea” department comes the news that our friends at Microsoft are downloading Windows 10 to PCs whether or not users have reserved a copy of it to download. What’s wrong with this? Say you have a cap in terms of the amount of data you can transfer across your Internet connection. This force download will basically eat about 4GB to 6GB of your cap. On top of that, that amount of disk space will simply “disappear” as well. All without your permission. According to a Microsoft statement given to The Inquirer, this will happen if you have automatic updates via Windows Update turned on. Thus that implies that if you have automatic updates turned off, this should be a non issue. That’s how I have my Windows 7 virtual machine set up and I don’t see any evidence that Microsoft has tried to force download Windows 10 onto my computer. But I will watch this and update this post if it does happen.
Here’s why this is an incredibly stupid idea on the part of Microsoft. I get that Microsoft would prefer that we all run their latest and greatest OS. It would make their lives easier as they would only have to write patches for one OS as opposed to having to write code for Windows 10, Windows 8.x, Windows 7.x and who know what else that they still support. It would also make us more secure in theory as Windows 10 has better security than previous efforts from Redmond. But it is my choice what OS I want to run and not Microsoft’s choice. Force feeding Windows 10 down users throats on top of not giving users the choice to install system updates or not is the sort of stupidity that makes people ditch PCs and run to Apple Stores to buy Macs because even Apple isn’t that dumb. Though there was that U2 album thing from last year. But at least that was a bunch of music files and not a 6GB operating system.
Microsoft is going to live to regret this. Mark my words.
UPDATE: Addictive Tips has a solution for this issue which involves uninstalling the KB3035583 update among other things.
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