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Senior Editor, PCWorld May 27, 2016 9:01 AM Microsoft stepped on the gas in its quest to drive Windows 7 and 8 users to Windows 10 over the past couple of weeks, rolling the upgrade out as a Recommended update. Watch out! The only behavior that could deny the Windows 10 upgrade before—closing the pop-up by pressing the X in the upper-right corner—now counts as consent for the upgrade, and worse, the upgrade installation can automatically begin even if you take no action whatsoever. It’s nasty business, and it’s tricking legions of happy Windows 7 and 8 users into Windows 10. Over the past week, I’ve received more contact from readers about this issue than I have about everything else I’ve written over the rest of my career combined. But beyond merely burning bridges with consumers, these forced, non-consensual upgrades could have more insidious consequences.” CE From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Stan Sent: Saturday, June 4, 2016 3:13 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' <legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] [Legacy] Ancestor Book Report Issue Hi Ronald Not sure if it still happens but Microsoft did install software on my computer without my knowledge or explicit agreement with disastrous consequences. I was silly enough to allow Microsoft to install Windows 10 on my computer very shortly after its release. All went well for a couple of days. I quite liked it I gave it no permission to apply updates automatically. I may have had the ability to opt out but certainly the fact that it was going to update without my permission was not drawn to my attention. I was surprised to note that while I was asleep the night after installation it downloaded over 100Mbs of update sand installed them without my express permission. I actually looked quickly for a setting to prevent that but did not locate it, Windows 10 was all new at that stage, 2 days later “in the dark of night” it was again updating without my knowledge or when the power went off during a storm and my hard disk was corrupted. It had to be reformatted The local Computer shop that restored the system (but none of the files that I hadn’t backed up externally) advised that there were 4 other computers that had been brought to them with the identical problem following the power outage. None had specifically agreed for Microsoft to update their computer whilst they slept Whether it still does or not I don’t know. But Microsoft did install software on my computer in the dark of night without my known agreement or permission . Cheers Stan From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:legacyusergroup-boun...@legacyusers.com] On Behalf Of Brian L. Lightfoot Sent: Sunday, 5 June 2016 7:54 a.m. To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com <mailto:LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestor Book Report Issue http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-peterson/warning-your-computer-may_b_10099208.html From: Ronald Howell [mailto:basketballman0...@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, June 4, 2016 11:23 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Ancestor Book Report Issue While I will agree to the last part of your statement, I have to disagree with the first part. I know of no software that installs itself ‘in the dark of night’. It may be a game, a genealogy program or an operating system but a user has to ‘agree’ to certain parameters associated with that software. Thanks,
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