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Time to get more unwanted Windows 10 installation complaints!
I can only assume Microsoft has been having trouble keeping up with people determined to prevent Windows 10 overwriting their current Windows installation.
So to fix that, they've made Windows 10 a "recommended" update. Previously it was, regardless of how it seemed to infest people's machines, only an "optional" update.
Apparently they want people either to be on Windows 10, or have windows updates disabled. As eventually that's going to be the only way to avoid it. (I think we can all see this eventually being updated to "required update" and the like at some point this year or next.)
So to fix that, they've made Windows 10 a "recommended" update. Previously it was, regardless of how it seemed to infest people's machines, only an "optional" update.
Apparently they want people either to be on Windows 10, or have windows updates disabled. As eventually that's going to be the only way to avoid it. (I think we can all see this eventually being updated to "required update" and the like at some point this year or next.)
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"Has anyone wondered why Microsoft is so insistent that everyone on older versions of Windows get on Windows 10? Well, Microsoft has already stated that there will be NO Windows 11. That tells me they are setting up a scenario for Windows much like they have in place tor MS Office 365. Like a drug dealer handing out free samples of crack, today this update is free and will be for the near future. But what I see coming down the pipe when they want to start making some Windows profit is that they simply flip a switch (which is slipped in as one of its mandatory updates whose contents they are so closemouthed about) and *presto!* a subscription licensing model kicks in.
Don't want to pay the monthly license fee? Not a problem. Windows goes into crippled mode until you do.
Does anyone else see this extortion coming our way?"
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if Microsoft were to do something as utterly despicable as that. At this point, I wouldn't put anything past them. (It also makes me glad that I'm still using Office 2003 and haven't needed to
updowngrade to the subscription model version of Microsoft Office yet. [And I'll switch to Open Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice) or Libre Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice) or something before I ever do that, anyway.])(Splitting into two comments because LJ is fucking lame.)
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Anyway, as for me, I'm not seeing the KB3035583 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583) update showing up, in either the "Important" or the "Optional" updates sections, so I guess maybe they're actually honoring (for now, at least) the fact that I hid that fucking shit (for the fourth time now) last time (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/124973.html?thread=208685#t208685) this happened.
What I am seeing, however, is that KB2952664 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2952664) bullshit showing up yet fucking again in the "Optional" updates section, even though I uninstalled and hid that shit a while back. Not only that, but I'm seeing two instances of the shit. Here, I'll embed a couple of screenshots here to show what I'm seeing.
Note how the first one is italicized and has the "Recommended update" sunshiny icon thing on the side there? Come to think of it, the last time (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/124973.html?thread=208685#t208685) this shit came up, I remember now that the KB3035583 shit was also italicized like that, meaning that it was probably already a "Recommended update" for me, even back then.
...in fact, just to check and see if that was the case, I just (temporarily) unhid the KB3035583 update and yep, sure enough, it is showing as a "Recommended Update," though it's still in the "Optional" section. But then, I also don't have that "Give me recommended updates the same way I receive important updates" bullshit option checked in my Windows Update settings either, as otherwise it would indeed be showing up in the "Important" section (http://kane-magus.livejournal.com/793973.html).
Well, now, all three of those (including both instances of KB2952664) are hidden yet again on my comp. Not that that will stop Microsoft from arbitrarily unhiding them again later, of course.
Oh, and also, same as before (http://owsf2000.livejournal.com/124973.html?thread=208941#t208941), I never got a notification that there were updates waiting for me, unlike how it used to be a while back, when I did get such notifications, so that's another thing that Microsoft has broken (whether accidentally or intentionally, I don't know, but at this point, I'm leaning toward believing that it's the latter).
For what it's worth, at least, none of the actual security updates in the "Important" section appear to have anything to do with
updowngrading to Windows 10... well, unless Microsoft has reached the point of just straight up lying in their update descriptions, anyway. ¬_¬no subject
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...and then I will finally make the jump to Linux and never look back.