Windows 10: Making it Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10

By fair warning, I meant being up front about their plans to do it, and not just doing it without any warning what so ever. I don't agree with the downloading the files needed for the upgrade in the background either. That should be a user yes no option. Asking upgrade to 10, yes no, just before you shut down and or reboot is a very bad move. IMHO Makes me wonder who's calling the shots on that one? How can they possibly think this won't piss people off and alienate them to Windows users? Having no control over updates was just the beginning I guess. *Sad

 

I don't know about "forced". At any rate don't we pretty much have the same thread here: Microsoft pushes Windows 10 upgrade to PCs without user consent. Seems to me we're rehashing the same old news. And I'm pretty certain that V3 news article you linked to is going to pretty much say what's already posted in the news article here, although with a slightly different spin as noted in the title *Rolleyes

 

It's just the Roll Back feature that is limited to 30 days. Well 31 now I guess. It won't work after that period. It looks to me that they are just being due diligent in telling you, you only have 30 days to use it. They are just making sure you know you only have 30 days to use it. Would you rather they said nothing and let you find out on your own that it won't work because you waited too long? After 30 days you have to use other means to go back to your old OS. I did a clean install of 8.1 on my other desktop PC well after the 30 day period, and had no issues reusing the key that was in use when I upgraded that PC to Windows 10.

 

Yeah, the way I understand it, or read it, is the update that sets you up to upgrade is being installed automatically via Windows Update. You can still say no, at least for now anyway.

 

If they really want to make it easy they would update this site with every new TP

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/soft...iderpreviewiso

 

Um, I think most would want to go to the Consumer release, not the Insider Preview release? The Consumer build is what you get via Windows update.

 

Yes you are right. I hope that they update the RTM ISO with the November 2nd update on it.

 

*Ditto

 

Yes meant to post it in News sorry

 

Yeah I got that and you posted that in my other query the other day. That said, my worry is how "aggressive" will MS get move people into Windows 10? Especially since they're "stressing" the now 31 days.

Yes MS did mention this when Win 10 first went to public, but they weren't stressing it like now. That's got me a bit worried with the "you only have 31 days to try it out" language.

Anyway I suppose we'll start getting this and the PC upgrade answers in the coming months as I'll be doing my normal 3-year major hardware upgrade in 2016.

And yeah, to me no means no - If I say no I don't want to upgrade to 10, don't plaster my PC with update files or "notices" to upgrade. No means no... leave me the heck (clean version) alone!

Right now I have to build a Win 7 machine to give to a family member that I need to stay Win 7. I don't need them nagged to death with Win 10 upgrade "notices".

 

Microsoft is not going to lay off unfortunately , check this out :


Microsoft to users: You'll download Windows 10, and you'll like it - Windows 7 Help Forums

 

Yeah I think were all aware of MS' aggressiveness on this already. We'd just wish they'd listen to us - no means no.

 

I would be very surprised if they blocked your key after 30 days. It's just going to piss people off and generate tons of negative press. Plus tons of tech support complaints etc. If they are even remotely concerned about their public image, they won't do it. IMHO. If they do that I'll resign my MVP.

 

Though I agree with you, I don't think MS is too concerned with their image in the way they are aggressively pushing Windows 10, in some instances forcing it on you (don't forget this lovely thread at the top of our forum here).

Anyway as I said, I'm running Windows 10 Pro and loving it; however I don't want all my machines to be Win 10 and should have the option of saying no and being left alone. Period.

 

I don't like it. I don't like it one bit. *Mad Or byte or bytes. I am also running 10, on all my PC's, but it was my choice, not Microsoft's. If I had a cap on my downloads I'd be pissed too.