Microsoft Sets Scheduled Upgrade, More Aggresive Approach To Upgrades To Win 10

[PistalPete]

 

Today I find this on my computer. Microsoft has taken a more aggressive approach to force upgrades.

 

[steven36]

in order to have this popup you must have get windows 10 updates (GWX) installed  it just telling you're  pc is ready to be updated

 

If you didn't want windows 10 you should  removed those updates and hide them or use GWX Control Panel to remove it.

[straycat19]

The Senior Center was getting calls about this yesterday and people who didn't want the upgrade but didn't understand how to stop it, so looks like my friends and I are going to be spending a lot of time working with them on rolling them back (when you volunteer to help an organization it is difficult to walk away).  On the other hand the program we have had for them the last month to replace Windows with Ubuntu and setup software for email, etc has gone very well and a lot of seniors have chosen to get away from Microsoft since their only reason for having it was it came on their computer.  The center has a short one hour class on using Linux that they require people to take before adding their name to the list for the change so they know what they are getting and it has gone very well.  The local school district disposed of their windows machines and went with iPads for the students and reduced their total IT staff to 2 full time people and using students in the various schools for on-site support.  That has worked very well and saved them over a million dollars this year alone.

[Reefa]

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[steven36]

LOL  They install GWX  and expect it to not install even my mom  told me to remove this crap from her system months ago . The way GWX  works is  it uses telemetry from windows 10  and if a lot of pcs of you're model have updated they trun it on and install windows 10 .

[oliverjia]

53 minutes ago, steven36 said:

LOL  They install GWX  and expect it to not install even my mom  told me to remove this crap from her system months ago . The way GWX  works is  it uses telemetry from windows 10  and if a lot of pcs of you're model have updated they trun it on and install windows 10 .

 

The way it works sounds like a spyware. Stupid Microsoft.

[steven36]

24 minutes ago, oliverjia said:

 

The way it works sounds like a spyware. Stupid Microsoft.

I just updated the laptop on my network Win 7 SP1 Pro for May 2016  they came up fast witch was a shocker  and the only get windows 10 update on it was GWX KB3035583

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583 I just hid the update and installed the other updates and i will worry about it again in June .

[AlienForce1]

This can help you solve your problem ->    Never10   , https://www.grc.com/never10.htm    (it was posted earlier in forum  here )

 

[oliverjia]

30 minutes ago, AlienForce1 said:

This can help you solve your problem ->    Never10   , https://www.grc.com/never10.htm    (it was posted earlier in forum  here )

 

 

I am mainly on Ubuntu nowadays. Only use Windows for some proprietary software very occasionally.

[Holmes]

I cant record songs from movies in ubuntu unless linux has somethingg like what you hear protocol which they screwed up in windows seven (I hate that about windows seven).  I do audio recording and video editing if I can do that in linux I am going to consider using linux.  I can record audio in windows seven i have to use a virtual sound card its annoying.

[csmdew]

I bet most of the ppl against MS and win 10 have tin foil around their house windows; paranoid bunch on here.