What do you mean by "non-consumer editions"? This isn't about forced
updates to Windows 10 once you have Windows 10 installed. This is
about duping people who are running Win 7 or 8 into allowing the
actual Win 10 OS to be installed on those boxes. That is, replacing
their OSes, not just "downloading" the code "in preparation".
Once this starts, if you have Automatic Updates turned on in your Win
7 or 8 box, you will go to your computer one morning next year and
find a dialog being displayed on your screen that says something
like, "We're ready to convert you to Windows 10. Yes or no?" Most
people will see this and do what they do with any Windows dialog that
they don't understand: click "Yes" to make it go away.
Everything I've read said it applies to "all" users of those OSes.
Here is what Myerson said:
"We will soon be publishing Windows 10 as an 'Optional Update' in
Windows Update for all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers. Windows
Update is the trusted, logical location for our most important
updates, and adding Windows 10 here is another way we will make it
easy for you to find your upgrade.
Early next year, we expect to be re-categorizing Windows 10 as a
'Recommended Update'. Depending upon your Windows Update settings,
this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device."
Note the "all" in the first paragraph.
Yes, if you don't have Automatic Updates turned on, you don't have to
worry. But Automatic Updates are turned on by default in all versions
of Windows 7 and Windows 8. My whole point was that a lot of people,
including IT experts who should know better, leave Automatic Updates
turned on and advise other people to do so.
I think it's getting a lot harder for people who are really honest
with themselves to spin this stuff as harmless or well-intended.
Won't affect non-consumer editions so not a problem for anyone we deal
with.
--
Alan Bourke
alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm
On Fri, 30 Oct 2015, at 05:53 PM, Ken Dibble wrote:
> Remember I said, a few weeks ago, "Windows Automatic Updates: just say
> no"?
>
> If you didn't have enough reason to heed me then, maybe now you do:
>
>
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2015/10/30/windows-10-upgrades-now-automatic/
>
> I kid you not. MS has formally announced that if you leave automatic
> updates on, you're going to find the Win 10 install process started
> on your machine. They have acknowledged that the earlier incident
> regarding this wasn't "accidental" or a "mistake". It was a "test".
>
> Where do you want to be dragged today?
>
> Ken Dibble
> www.stic-cil.org
>
>
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