Betanews reports on an announcement from Microsoft regarding its Windows 10 operating system:
[...] come May 9 it will stop updating the original release, known as 1507. The software giant had intended to stop supporting that release on March 26, but pushed back the deadline.
additional coverage:
Computerworld
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(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Monday April 17 2017, @01:53AM
I keep 1 installation of Windows 10 available, and experiment on it, see how much crap I can uninstall, delete, block, and so on and still have it functioning. Almost all the cloud crap can be uninstalled. Have to bring up a "power shell", and enter
Get-AppxPackage *zunevideo* | Remove-AppxPackage
and the same command with *zunemusic*, *windowsstore* and a bunch of other things to get rid of them.
By accident I learned one way to prevent Windows 10 from updating is to not have enough free space. If there's less than 1G of hard drive space free, it can't do the major updates. It will complain of course, but it won't try to update.
Like Sun Tzu said, "know your enemy".