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Windows 10 forcefully installs
- kazinator 11y agoMicrosoft needs to put up a dialog box which says, "Please check the following checkbox, and click OK to upgrade your whole darned OS to Windows 10, or else click Cancel not to do that.". This needs to be in 48 point font, splashed across most of the screen. Any prompt less than this is deceptive. Making it a recommended update so it can be foisted on users who have things set up to automatically apply recommended updates is particularly sneaky. Windows 7 or 8 to 10 is not an upDATE. It's what would be called an upGRADE in the sane world. Update is "patch a buffer overflow in FOO.DLL". MIcrosoft clearly knows it is an upgrade: the progress screen (depicted in the article) shows "Upgrading Windows". The MSDN Windows Installer guide also makes the terminology clear: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa369786%28v=vs.85%29.aspx https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3... (MSDN Windows Installer Guide). According to Windows Installer terminology, this is a Major Upgrade.
- ausjke 11y agoOne of my family Windows was updated automatically(or deceptively automatically) and caused a panic, I shut it down forcefully to get it back, so far it did not auto-upgrade yet.