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Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will be released globally—for PCs and tablets only—on July 29 as a free upgrade for anyone running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1.
You have one year from July 29 to get your free upgrade to Windows 10, after which Microsoft will "continue to keep it current for the supported lifetime of the device—at no cost." There's no word on what the "supported lifetime" actually is, but it's probably some loose wording to prevent Microsoft from falling into the same trap as Windows XP. The company likely doesn't want to support Windows 10 on devices that are 10, 15 years old.
The annunciatory blog post, penned by operating system chief Terry Myerson, is light on any further details. There's no guidance on the release date for Windows 10 Mobile, and it isn't clear how many of the seven Windows 10 SKUs will be released on July 29.
Original Submission
(Score: 5, Informative) by frojack on Monday June 01 2015, @09:40PM
When I saw this story in the queue, I held off submitting another, preferring to add my content here.
On the Windows machines and VMs I use for my Day Job, I noticed a new windows icon in the tray this morning asking If I wanted to Get Windows 10, Reserve a copy, or visit some FAQ web site.
The absolute last thing I want to happen is some windows 10 update show up on a production machine with some eager noob siting at the keyboard.
I was already freaked out enough that Microsoft could push tray items to my desktops without my approval.
Digging through their FAQ Here I found how to turn off that notification window. [microsoft.com]
Its the ultimate opt-out ploy. Apparently Microsoft feels its easier to get forgiveness than to get permission. I wonder if they will suffer any blowback from this.? They did not explicitly ask permission to mess with anyone's machines except to apply bug patches via windows update, but apparently a new level of foistage snuck in as if all prior windows versions were a bug that needed fixing. (smirk).
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Funny) by GungnirSniper on Monday June 01 2015, @09:43PM
That would be terminal stupidity.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by tnt118 on Monday June 01 2015, @10:00PM
Well, technically you'd have had to install an update (KB3035583) as a prereq before this prompt will show up, so you did kind of ask for it ;-)
Also from what tech sites were reporting earlier this morning machines on a domain cannot get this prompt.
I think I like it here.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Tuesday June 02 2015, @12:27AM
But that thing came as a windows update patch, without any pre-warning. Most people expect those to be
bug fixes and security enhancements, not invitation naggers in the tray.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by danomac on Monday June 01 2015, @10:02PM
It probably was through a Windows update. Microsoft doesn't really publish what these updates do on their website (hm, wonder why?)
If you block KB3035583 [microsoft.com] you should be able to prevent the notification from being installed [computerworld.com]. I remember reading about two other updates, but that one I believe is the primary one.
If google KB3035583 there's lots of results.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 01 2015, @10:48PM
This is worth an article submission by itself