Time to get more unwanted Windows 10 installation complaints!

[owsf2000]

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.)

Comments

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Here (http://betanews.com/2016/02/01/microsoft-makes-windows-10-a-recommended-update-for-windows-7-and-8-1-users/#comment-2492417278) is an interesting comment that I found under the article (http://betanews.com/2016/02/01/microsoft-makes-windows-10-a-recommended-update-for-windows-7-and-8-1-users/) linked to by the slashdot thing, which I will copy/paste here in case something happens to it later:

"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.)