microsoft Users Given Just 10 Days to Downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update

[vissha]

Users Given Just 10 Days to Downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update

 

 

Redmond cuts the rollback period of 30 days

 

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One of the unexpected changes that were introduced by Microsoft with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update is a shorter period of time during which users can perform a downgrade and go back to a previous OS version or build.

 

Previously, Microsoft was offering users the possibility of downgrading to their previous Windows version in a maximum of 30 days after first installing Windows 10, but with the Anniversary Update, the company has decided to cut this period to just 10 days.

 

WinSuperSite notes that, by shortening the rollback period to 10 days, Microsoft can help recover more space on the target device faster than before, as the rollback recovery files obviously eat up space, which is kind of important for devices with small storage.

 

No reason to downgrade

 

The company has already confirmed in a statement that this change has indeed been made in the Anniversary Update because it discovered that the majority of users perform the downgrade in the first days after installing Windows 10 anyway, so there was basically no reason to keep the 30-day deadline and use much more space during this whole time for nothing.

 

“Based on our user research, we noticed most users who choose to go back to a previous version of Windows do it within the first several days. As such, we changed the setting to 10 days to free storage space used by previous copies,” a company spokesperson is quoted as saying.

 

For the moment, it’s not yet clear how many users actually want to downgrade from Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but there’s basically no reason to do it, mostly because this update comes with a long list of new features and improvements over the base version of Windows 10.

 

It remains to be seen how the community sees this new silent change, and as usual, get ready for a new round of criticism aimed at the company for not announcing this before the public launch of the Anniversary Update.

 

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My Views on Win 10 in recently updated post here.

 

[Karlston]

Microsoft are now concerned about the storage space their updates/upgrades use?

 

Is that the same unethical company that downloaded the Windows 10 upgrade to devices without the slightest concern about getting the user's permission, consuming their bandwidth and storage space?

 

Microsoft = zero trust.

[flitox]

i'd be curious to know if there are statistics on these rollback, how many of them failed and how many succeded perfectly.

 

i tried win 10 and rolling back to win 7 was a complete fail

[haxzion]

Let me get this right, first they lock some very important Group Policy settings in the next OS update, then they give their costumers 10 days to roll back to the previous version but they don't see any reason to roll back? What?

 

Wow Microsoft reached a whole new level of retardation. 

[straycat19]

8 minutes ago, haxzion said:

Let me get this right, first they lock some very important Group Policy settings in the next OS update, then they give their costumers 10 days to roll back to the previous version but they don't see any reason to roll back? What?

 

Wow Microsoft reached a whole new level of retardation. 

 

Microsoft is modeling itself after Evel Corp on Mr Robot.  They intend to take over the OS world.  Personally, a company that has been in the Windows OS development market for 33 years and still can't produce a stable secure system is a failure.  The way they are treating users of Windows 10 is inexcusable.

[steven36]

1 hour ago, haxzion said:

Let me get this right, first they lock some very important Group Policy settings in the next OS update, then they give their costumers 10 days to roll back to the previous version but they don't see any reason to roll back? What?

 

Wow Microsoft reached a whole new level of retardation. 

What you going rollback too ? Th2  there just going to re update you sooner or latter ..windows 7 and 8.1 is no longer a free upgrade no one  is forced to update too it. No one is going to go buy a key for $119  or $200 just to roll back.  if you dont want to be using windows 10 you need to have a windows 7 or Windows 8.1 key  or just pirate  that shit . Once you on windows 10 you're on windows 10 only way to  get rid of  it is too reformat with a different O/S..It 's not rocket science.