Batu69 Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 “You will always be asked before,” the company says The original Get Windows 10 app released in June Microsoft encourages everyone to install Windows 10 as soon as possible, especially because the new OS is available as a free upgrade for those running Windows 7 or 8.1, but the company’s push for the new OS has become rather aggressive lately. There are users out there who claim that their PCs got updated to Windows 10 all of a sudden, while others started seeing prompts to install the new OS without actually giving them a “no” option. “Upgrade now” and “Upgrade tonight” were the two settings available for those seeing this prompt, so it’s no surprise that criticism aimed at Microsoft for becoming so aggressive with the Windows 10 upgrade has intensified in the last 30 days. But in a statement, the company says that it doesn’t force anyone to install the Windows 10 upgrade and it doesn’t plan to do such a thing anytime soon, as letting users choose what they want to do is part of the company’s philosophy. “Windows Update is the trusted, logical location for our most important updates, and adding Windows 10 here is another way we will make it easy for you to find your upgrade. Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose to continue,” the Microsoft spokesperson points out. And yet, updates to Get Windows 10 app are still being made But despite this rather friendly statement released by Microsoft, the Get Windows 10 app available on Windows 7 and 8.1 computers eligible for the upgrade is still being “improved” with different prompts that make it even harder for users to refuse the install. Starting early 2016, Microsoft will make Windows 10 a recommended update for all these PCs, so that will be the moment when everyone should double-check before installing anything via Windows Update because, otherwise, they might end up running the new OS without any other notice (or with some notices, as Microsoft promises). Article source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesDDI Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Yeah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 2 hours ago, Batu69 said: MICROSOFT: Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose to continue. Honey, are we going to do it now, or are we going to do it tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabourzannan Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Microsoft will enforce Windows 10 in many ways including ending support, fixes for older Windows and by working with other software providers to release applications that is designed mainly for it. At some point users will have to upgrade or give up on using these applications. The statement "company says that it doesn’t force anyone to install the Windows 10 upgrade and it doesn’t plan to do such a thing anytime soon, as letting users choose what they want to do is part of the company’s philosophy" is a hugely deceitful statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 18 minutes ago, dabourzannan said: Microsoft will enforce Windows 10 in many ways including ending support, fixes for older Windows and by working with other software providers to release applications that is designed mainly for it. At some point users will have to upgrade or give up on using these applications. The statement "company says that it doesn’t force anyone to install the Windows 10 upgrade and it doesn’t plan to do such a thing anytime soon, as letting users choose what they want to do is part of the company’s philosophy" is a hugely deceitful statement. XP has not even got a update in over a year and most software providers still support it they could care less about Microsoft . Microsoft is not on very good terms with most legacy app makers because the whole ordeal with modern apps . M$ don't pay these people's bills the consumer does regardless of what brand of windows they use. After July 2016 people who didn't upgrade want even be offered a free upgrade its only like half a year away .They would get sued if they stop giving updates before its end of life . Even Vista still gets updates for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabourzannan Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 You are right but now there are some applications that will not work with XP sometimes Vista. I think if software vendors will challenge Microsoft wish, the software sizes will be larger, more complicated and they will have to raise the price of their products to make it compatible with older OS's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steven36 Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 7 hours ago, dabourzannan said: You are right but now there are some applications that will not work with XP sometimes Vista. I think if software vendors will challenge Microsoft wish, the software sizes will be larger, more complicated and they will have to raise the price of their products to make it compatible with older OS's. All this topic is talking is the fact Microsoft has not try to push the updates on all computers yet . Quote Starting early 2016, Microsoft will make Windows 10 a recommended update for all these PCs Get windows 10 updates have appeared on my new Dell Windows 8.1 several times in recommended updates in 2015 already incl DEC 2015 maybe if they keep telling the same lie over and over Microsoft may start believing there own lies . Because the end user of windows 7 and 8.1 knows better really you could use windows 8 i don't think unless you upgrade it to windows 8.1 they even offer the update . I've had auto updates turned off every since i bought my new dell because they try to install windows 10 on me as soon as i pulled it out the box and hooked the wi-fi too it. Some older pcs are not really compatible with Windows 10 no way so really you be better off buying a new pc if you want it. But Microsoft don't share this info with you , are do the Microsoft Evangelists . But you go check out Windows 10 help forums and Microsoft feedback its swamped with people with regression bugs. Most of this comes from them giving you free product that you're hardware don't really support and if you bought a PC that comes with windows 10 to begin with you will not have all these problems. Even Dell or HP tells its costumers they should downgrade back to windows 7 or 8.1 because there computers are not really meant for windows 10 . The worse thing that could happen would be they upgraded you to windows 10 because you forgot to turn updates off and hide them . its still not the end of the world you have 30 days to roll back and maybe you will be more careful next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 3 minutes ago, steven36 said: Even Dell or HP tells its costumers they should downgrade back to windows 7 or 8.1 because there computers are not really meant for windows 10 . This is true, and should be a warning to the Microsoft Win10 pushers to stop this aggressive nonsense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Actarusse Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Microsoft Says It’ll Never Force Users to Install Windows 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dabourzannan Posted December 24, 2015 Share Posted December 24, 2015 Unless you turn off automatic update, you will wake up in the morning with windows 10 on you computer. Another way of enforcing W 10 is that we eventually have to buy new machines when ours start breaking down then you be forced to buy one with W 10 installed. If you tried to format the new machine and use your old OS you will end up using unsupported one. So not much choices are left for people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halteclere Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 They'll never force users to install Windows 10, they'll just do it themselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vibranium Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Meanwhile, I see that Microsoft is breaching its own upgrade blocks as detailed in https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351 That is playing dirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AP1972 Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Starting 2016, Microsoft will make Windows 10 a recommended update for all these PC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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