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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: 3, Insightful) by anubi on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:36AM
Now, what they will do is release the latest development tools to business, which will begin releasing software that won't run on anything less than windows 10.
Businesses, afraid of being called "behind the times", won't use the older tools that made compatible executables.
Soon, we will not be able to read documents or run apps needed to communicate with the executive layer of a corporation unless we also buy into this.
Microsoft has already announced discontinuing Zune. After all these units have been deployed. Would you trust building any sort of Microsoft product into an embedded application? Say I had designed an embedded Microsoft operating system in a Coke machine. I would not be pleased at all on having to redo all those machines in the field every time Microsoft changed their mind.
As it is, I try like the dickens to put an Arduino in, as I know its gonna work till the cows come home.
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