Microsoft Silently Re-Enables Windows 10 Upgrades on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs – Report

[Jack]

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http://news.softpedia.com/news/microsoft-silently-re-enables-windows-10-upgrades-on-windows-7-and-8-1-pcs-report-497234.shtml

Microsoft's getting ready for the more aggressive upgrade phase of Windows 10 – when the new OS will show up first as optional, and then as recommended download in Windows Update – so the company has recently made some changes to Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs to make sure that more computers get it.

Basically, settings on PCs that were previously configured not to receive the upgrade to Windows 10 have been reset and it appears that one of the updates that Microsoft deployed on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs keeps checking every day to make sure that no other changes are made to this behavior.

Update being re-offered several times
The information comes from the creator of GWX Control Panel, an application developed to block the upgrade to Windows 10.

"Over Thanksgiving weekend I started getting reports that the Windows Update 'AllowOSUpgrade' setting was getting flipped back on on a number of peoples' PCs, and it keeps re-setting itself at least once a day if they switch it back off," Josh Mayfield was quoted as saying by CW.

Read more: Microsoft Silently Re-Enables Windows 10 Upgrades on Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs – Report

 

[Secondmineboy]

Why is Microsoft even doing this?

If people want Windoof then they install it, if not then NOT.

 

[Exterminator]

Like a bad heroin addict Microsoft just cannot kick their nasty Windows 10 upgrade habit.

 

[jamescv7]

We should not surprise for this kind of move, perhaps until July 2016 the way of advertising will extent at aggressive since they can grab it free anytime and when expires its not longer accessible.

People wants free even in reality isn't it.

 

[frogboy]

Not on my PC they don't.

 

[Evgeny]

Not on my PC they don't.

Not on mine too

 

[Smith83]

M$ Development team consist of one dog, working on windows 10.

And like propaganda in wartime they try and assert their crap on you, whether you want it or not.

 

[frogboy]

M$ Devolpment team consist of one dog, working on windows 10.

And like propaganda in wartime they try and assert their crap on you, whether you want it or not.

Yep.