Microsoft Auto-Scheduling Windows 10 Updates

[owsf2000]

As we near the last 4 months of the trade-your-paid-OS-for-datamining-OS offer from Microsoft, the already intrusive upgrade nagging has become even more intrusive.

Now, instead of asking you if you want to upgrade, Microsoft automatically schedules when you will be upgrading the PC. Currently you can reschedule for a different date or cancel it (Although I'm sure it will re-schedule you again anyway, so why the heck bother with a "cancel" other than to get people to let their guard down.) but I'm sure that's just there to help the lawyers with angry lawsuits.

Imagine people on vacation with their PC left turned on (And since Windows 10 loves to cache itself on your computer, you don't even need it connected to the internet.) They come home and... wow, new OS with no intervention from them.

Hell, it's not like you even need to be on vacation for getting bitten in the ass by this.

I've never seen a company apparently hate their own products quite this intensely.

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

"Meanwhile, the U.S. Marine Corps has discovered half their computers unexpectedly can't remotely upgrade to Windows 10, slowing their transition to what they expect to be a much more secure operating system."

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"slowing their transition to what they expect to be a much more secure operating system."

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"a much more secure operating system."

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What. (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/FlatWhat)




Well, it doesn't appear that they've scheduled any of that bullshit on my computer, as far as I can tell anyway, which is fortunate. However, what I do see is that in Windows Update, that goddamn, motherfucking KB3035583 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3035583) fucking horseshit has been unhidden yet the goddamn fuck again. *weary goddamn sigh*

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Also... it's closer to two months than four months... The end of the "free" period for Windows 10 is July 29, 2016.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

I'm seeing people mention in the comments how it's time for a class action lawsuit against Micro$hit over this. I really have to wonder why there hasn't already been a lawsuit against Micro$hit over this heinous bullshit.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Meh, I had to stop reading the comments, for real though. Probably 50-75% or more of them are trolls (EDIT) or Micro$hit reputation management drones (/EDIT) of varying levels of annoyance.

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

What we really need is a lot more people migrating over to Linux, although you have to be careful with that as well since Ubuntu at the very least likes to do the datamining as well. In fact I'd wonder how similar their stuff is to Windows 10.

Next time I try installing linux distros I'm going to see what Debian is like. I upgraded the Ubuntu distro I had on the other comp from 12 to 14 - and while it still technically functions, there are some errors that get thrown at times. I'm not 100% blaming the distro itself for the errors in this case though, since I swapped the comps as well - so hardware is likely not 100% as expected. But then, people were telling me to pretty much expect errors doing upgrades rather than full installs.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Yeah, whenever we did stuff with the newest versions of Linux at the testing job I did in WA, we'd do stuff with both upgrades and also wiping machines and installing the new versions fresh, and the upgrades always seemed to have more issues than clean installs.