I don’t mind that MS wants to market its newest product. It has its good and bad points, much like any other product does, open markets and all that.

What I do mind is forcible marketing, and using a tool which is indispensible to do it, and lying about “accidents”.

For those wanting to change over to W10, it’s pretty easy. For those who don’t, we have to fight an endless battle against W10 upgrade patches designed to prep our computers for the change to W10.

For the unwary, this led to cases where W10 actually was downloaded without informed consent. Then, about two weeks ago, W10 pushed the change to W10 forcefully to some systems and MS stated later this happened “by accident”.

Now, MS is intimating that this “accident” may soon become an actual situation for millions of W7 and W8 users soon. What’s most laughable (but I’m not laughing) is MS’s newest tactic, “in order to make it easier for users to find it”. Seriously? In the age of Google (or Duckduckgo if you’re smarter)?

Early next year MS plans to re-define W10 as a “recommended update”: This will automatically install W10 depending on how you have Windows Update configured. Please check your Windows Update and just have it notify you of updates available allowing you to choose which updates you install and which you decline. Otherwise, you may be quite surprised to encounter a whole new OS after updating your machine….especially if you configured Windows Update to install “Important” and “Recommended” updates automatically.

“To verify the current update preferences on Windows 7, do the following:

1. Tap on the Windows-key.
2. Type Windows Update and hit enter. This should open the Windows Update interface.
3. Select "change settings" on the left side.
4. Uncheck "give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" under "recommended options".
5. If you want, you may also switch from "install updates automatically (recommended)" to "check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" to be on the safe side.

On Windows 8, you need to do the following instead:

1. Swipe from the right edge of the screen, click on Settings, then Change PC Settings and finally on Update and recovery.
2. Select "choose how updates get installed".
3. Uncheck "give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates".
4. Optional: Change how updates are delivered under "important updates".”

     - gHacks

This isn’t the only plan MS has. To end piracy…a good thing of itself, for non-genuine versions of Windows, Microsoft plans to launch an experiment in the United States first which provides users of these systems with an opportunity to purchase a genuine copy of the operating system directly via Windows Store or by entering an activation code.

Source:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/10/30/beware-microsoft-plans-to-push-windows-10-on-even-more-windows-7-and-8-systems/?_m=3n%2e0038%2e1776%2ehj0ao01hy5%2e1uio