Microsoft - No More Forced Win 10 Installs

Joxer has a lot of wrong in his post but I will not bother to comment it in details because he has me on ignore anyways and will not see it or read it.

Most relatives & neighbours I know are using Linux now anyway.

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Thank god. This force-fed Win10 was a really underhanded, low-down, and potentially dangerous move by MS, and I'm surprised that things havent went further. The danger isnt just granny's computer not working right, this had far-reaching implications in business, security, and even governmental computer systems.

We just about went over the edge at work, thankfully i caught it in time. I ran around, and changed the entire company update settings accordingly, blocked MS updates, and set out an email directive with specific instructions just in case. Still, even then, some systems would have Win10 nagging at barely-computer-literate users for them to install.

As a design firm that uses a ton of engineering software, the idea of a forced update could have spelled a potential IT armageddon. Who knows what software is fully compatible, usable, and what it would do to legacy file types and extensions.

Dangerous, and totally irresponsible decision by MS, I lost a ton of respect for them due to this.

Hmmm, I thought win7 professional or enterprise editions did not update to win10 automatically. Is your company using Win7 Home edition?

Originally Posted by Archangel
Why do you think there will be no Win 11?

Microsoft has said there won't be, that Windows 10 will be the last, and all future new stuff will just be updates to Win10. Not sure if I buy that it will play out exactly like that, but it's not out of the question. After all, we're still using MacOS 10 ("X") today, 17 years after its release, and it seems it will never have a version 11 - in fact, they officially dropped the "X" from the name a week or two ago because it had become pointless. Windows could go the same route, maybe in 10 or 20 years from now they just get rid of the "10".

Originally Posted by bjon045
Hmmm, I thought win7 professional or enterprise editions did not update to win10 automatically. Is your company using Win7 Home edition?

No, Windows 7 Professional does automatically update, if it's an OEM or Retail license. (Experienced this firsthand.) Volume license versions won't, because volume license copies of Windows are not entitled to free Win10 upgrades period. Enterprise will never automatically update, because it's only available via volume license to begin with.

All that aside… In a business environment, people should generally be using WSUS (or just "Update Services" as I believe it's called in the newer versions of Windows Server) to control updates for their company. In that case, you just don't approve the Win10 free upgrade updates to ever get installed on your computers, and there's no issue.

Originally Posted by bjon045
Hmmm, I thought win7 professional or enterprise editions did not update to win10 automatically. Is your company using Win7 Home edition?

Computers that are part of a domain other than WORKGROUP were not automatically updated. They were at least that circumspect.

By the way, if you really switched off the update for good, it could become a bit more involved to get the Win10 upgrade when you reconsidered. For example, my mom asked me to perform the upgrade on her computer from Win7, and she had switched off the update notification a few months before. I had to go the route via the Media Creation Tool to get her computer to upgrade, everything else failed rather ungracefully.

Originally Posted by Turjan
Computers that are part of a domain other than WORKGROUP were not automatically updated. They were at least that circumspect.

They actually removed that limitation about 6 months ago, domain PCs get the Win10-upgrade updates now too. Of course, in theory it's mostly irrelevant, since any PC in a domain "should" have its updates managed from a WSUS server, not by Microsoft.