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> Reminder that Microsoft installed adware on Windows 7/8 machines to encourage users to upgrade to Windows 10. Because Linux distributions like Ubuntu never e

• deciplex 11y ago
  They stop doing it when I tell them to knock it off, and they don't creep back in and do it again after a few months, either. The update responsible for the notification, even after I removed it and hid the update within WU, found its way back after MS released an 'update' to the package with the totally unintended, honest! side effect of unhiding the package and reinstalling it.
  • wfunction 11y ago
    > They stop doing it when I tell them to knock it off Oh, I wish what you said was true. It's funny because they didn't do that when I was on an older version of Ubuntu (11? 12? I forget). It just kept popping up and telling me to update no matter what I did. Stuff like this: http://askubuntu.com/q/218755 http://askubuntu.com/q/218755