You might recall that I wrote about Microsoft forcing Windows 7 and 8 computers to download the Windows 10 update files. All 6 plus gigs of it. Well, ARS Technica is reporting that Microsoft has gone further:
“For the first year of its availability, Windows 10 is available for free to most Windows 7 and 8 users, and Microsoft has been trying to coax those users to make the switch by delivering the operating system through Windows Update. Until now, the OS has been delivered as an optional update; while Windows Update gives it prominent positioning, it shouldn’t be installed automatically.
This system has already generated some complaints, as Windows Update will download the sizeable operating system installer even if you don’t intend to upgrade any time soon, but, over the last couple of days, the situation seems to have become a little more aggressive. We’ve received a number of reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the installer but actually starting it up.”
Really Microsoft? Must you stoop to forcing an install on users who don’t want it? They clam that’s not what’s going on:
As part of our effort to bring Windows 10 to existing genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers, the Windows 10 upgrade may appear as an optional update in the Windows Update (WU) control panel. This is an intuitive and trusted place people go to find Recommended and Optional updates to Windows. In the recent Windows update, this option was checked as default; this was a mistake and we are removing the check.
I have problems believing that this is a mistake. But that’s the cynical side of me coming out. Microsoft really needs to get their act together. Users will make their own decision on whether they want to upgrade to Windows 10 or not. Forcing them is not going to accomplish anything other than alienating potential users.
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Microsoft Claims Forcing Windows 10 Onto Users Is A “Mistake”
You might recall that I wrote about Microsoft forcing Windows 7 and 8 computers to download the Windows 10 update files. All 6 plus gigs of it. Well, ARS Technica is reporting that Microsoft has gone further:
“For the first year of its availability, Windows 10 is available for free to most Windows 7 and 8 users, and Microsoft has been trying to coax those users to make the switch by delivering the operating system through Windows Update. Until now, the OS has been delivered as an optional update; while Windows Update gives it prominent positioning, it shouldn’t be installed automatically.
This system has already generated some complaints, as Windows Update will download the sizeable operating system installer even if you don’t intend to upgrade any time soon, but, over the last couple of days, the situation seems to have become a little more aggressive. We’ve received a number of reports that people’s systems are not merely downloading the installer but actually starting it up.”
Really Microsoft? Must you stoop to forcing an install on users who don’t want it? They clam that’s not what’s going on:
As part of our effort to bring Windows 10 to existing genuine Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers, the Windows 10 upgrade may appear as an optional update in the Windows Update (WU) control panel. This is an intuitive and trusted place people go to find Recommended and Optional updates to Windows. In the recent Windows update, this option was checked as default; this was a mistake and we are removing the check.
I have problems believing that this is a mistake. But that’s the cynical side of me coming out. Microsoft really needs to get their act together. Users will make their own decision on whether they want to upgrade to Windows 10 or not. Forcing them is not going to accomplish anything other than alienating potential users.
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