Windows 10 Nagging Increases again!

[owsf2000]

Really not very surprising I guess, but 'Get Windows 10' Turns Itself On and Nags Win 7 and 8.1 Users Twice a Day.

Essentially if you have been rewriting registry settings to stop the windows 10 nag on your 7/8 boxes, the new update now looks for manually edited register settings and "corrects" them, then proceeds to nag you if you're eligible for a free Windows 10 upgrade - after downloading the 6gig update.

Seriously, with how hard Microsoft is trying to obsolete their older software, I can't help but wonder exactly what benefits they're REALLY getting out of all the datamining they do on Windows 10.

In related news, I've been testing out Linux installs. The Ubuntu 14 upgrade from 12 didn't work very well - functional but some errors. I'm sure things would work fine with a pure 14 install instead of an upgrade, but I've also got a few other distros downloaded and burned to DVD to try out.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Here's another weird, questionable issue. Until I actually did that "Check for Updates" thing today, I had no idea at all that there were updates ready to be downloaded. The last time I installed updates was on November 3, 2015, and not a single time between then and now did Windows Update bother to inform me that I had updates waiting. I didn't even think about updating Windows until I saw your post. As such, given how fucking deceitful Microsoft has otherwise been lately, I have to now wonder whether this was just a hiccup in the system, or if Microsoft is trying to actively hamstring users of older OS versions who have opted to manually update their machines instead of blindly (and unwisely) trusting Microsoft's automatic updates, by intentionally no longer informing them about updates.

Guess I'll just have to start manually doing a "Check for Updates" on my own from time to time now, rather than, yes, blindly trusting in Microsoft, even to that minor extent.