Ben Funk over on TechReport has linked to a Terry Myerson blog post where he states that in early 2016, the "Windows 10 Upgrade" update will be changed in status from "Optional" to "Recommended". Therefore, if you haven't changed your Windows 7 system from automatically installing updates to manually notifying, but not installing, now is a good time to make that change, and audit every single "patch" you see. There have already been reports of users unknowingly experiencing ISP bandwidth overages due to downloading a massive 3 GB file due to the "Optional" update that was not requested, but Microsoft seems to be throwing caution to the winds.
In the blog post, Myerson has this statement: "Depending upon your Windows Update settings, this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device. Before the upgrade changes the OS of your device, you will be clearly prompted to choose whether or not to continue. And of course, if you choose to upgrade (our recommendation!), then you will have 31 days to roll back to your previous Windows version if you don't love it." Historically, Windows has been far cleaner to install on a blank disk than to upgrade in place, so this sounds like a recipe for many support calls. There also seems to be no backtracking on any of the privacy concerns, or perhaps taking the "zero telemetry, selective update install" functionality promised (but not yet delivered) to Enterprise customers, and extending it to consumer licensees who value their privacy.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @09:41AM
Proving system D is "good or bad" will never happen. Why? Because "good" and "bad," being moral-ethical terms, really have no relevance in this domain.
However, to the neutral observer, there are always interesting points of discussion, if you only look for them.
Consider this one that just popped up in my inbox:
http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=accd9eeb719916da974584b33b1aeced5f3bb346 [busybox.net]
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday October 31 2015, @09:51AM
To the pragmatist, "good" means it works well, and "bad" means it works poorly, or not at all. Nothing moral about it. Cheap gas pumped from dirty tanks is "bad", cheap gas pumped from clean tanks is "okay". Good quality gas pumped from clean tanks is "good". My car tells me so, and I believe it.
(Score: 2) by fritsd on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:32PM
blimey :-)
You'd expect busybox to work everywhere, under all circumstances.
I wonder what the systemdfanbois did to annoy busybox project members.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday October 31 2015, @07:15PM
Proving system D is "good or bad" will never happen. Why? Because "good" and "bad," being moral-ethical terms, really have no relevance in this domain.
Ah, but pure evil, on the other hand, is relevant.