As a business owner & home user of Windows 7 & on one laptop windows 10 I would like to share my disgust at Microsoft in the way it’s forcing user’s to upgrade to windows 10.
Firstly & I think many of us have done this is to pop in a second HDD, install our windows 7 & then upgrade & activate just in case windows 10 improves & changes so were not losing out & then just pop in our old HDD & continue as normal. So this I would suggest so you don’t lose out!
Now the update’s we get from Microsoft on windows 7 are nothing short of pushy & misleading. I’ve listed these for you below.
1. KB 2952664- a secret snooping patch first pushed to Windows 7 back in April.
2. KB 2976978 – last issued in June, it is a scanner which sends diagnostics to Microsoft from CEIP participants.
3. KB 2977759 – another diagnostic scanner, this one analyses computers to see whether their hardware is compatible for upgrades to Windows 10 and sends the data to Microsoft.
4. KB 3035583 – this patch contains the infamous ‘Get Windows 10’ nagware pop-up which anyone who hasn’t upgraded to Windows 10 will likely have disabled by now
Well Microsoft thinks you need reminding, because now it has been reclassified as ‘Important’ and will therefore install automatically. So prepare for those Get Windows 10 pop-ups to start appearing again. Now to me this sounds like misleading or even lies to get you to upgrade. When has a free OS upgrade ever been important when our current OS is still working flawlessly? To a novice user like my son is would install this “important” update & then turn off his system to wake up with windows 10. This is not acceptable because my son’s laptop doesn’t support windows 10 or even functions correctly with windows ten. It simply refuses to load into the desktop regardless of how you try & install it so the only thing he or should I say I could do was format & re install windows 7. This caused great inconvenience & some data loss which would have been much worse if he didn't save backups onto a USB stick.
What right do Microsoft have to push a OS onto systems that do not support it or even work with it? Is this a deliberate attempt to force people into buying newer machines? This feels deliberate because I have contacted Microsoft via Live chat & what I was told is basically. If windows 10 downloads & installs, this means that the system/hardware is compatible & should work & any error's is down to the user & not the OS. I made my point very clear explaining that the Laptop in question does not work with windows 10 nor has driver's for key components for the laptop included with windows 10. The conversation got a bit heated on my side because the person I was talking sounded like he or she was reading from a script of possible questions & answers. Then I asked what gives Microsoft the right to download & install software without our permission. I never got an answer as the session suddenly ended!
This is damn right wrong & I am sure illegal practice because where is the user’s choice? As a business owner with over 180 windows 7 machines, the nightmare simply gets worse in preventing windows 10 from downloading its junk & the constant popups to upgrade. I have already asked my legal team to look into our options because we’re now forced to disable windows 7 updates entirely due to this problem.
I am 100% happy to continue using windows 7 on my home machines & my company machines. The practice Microsoft is undertaking is nothing short of pushy & trickery to get us to upgrade replacing our windows 7 or windows 8 we rightfully paid for & own. We want to keep our current OS. We don’t want to upgrade & forcing us by annoying the hell out of windows 7 & 8 user’s to do so is wrong.
Then we come to the downloading behind the scenes windows 10 files in hidden folders where the average user won’t even notice. This is wrong because in no way did I accept & agree for Microsoft to download content I do not want onto my systems. Nor did I give it permission to use my Bandwidth to do so!
I have scanned over the windows 7 License & EULA & I have found no mention of the right for Microsoft to store its data on our systems or upgrade our current OS to another of their choosing. I was going to say without our permission but simply using the windows is agreeing to it. But no mention means they are doing something which is foreign to our current windows agreement & can & I am sure will be challenged.
Microsoft do not own our computers, we do!
Microsoft do not own any hardware in our systems, we do!
Microsoft do not own or have any right to our bandwidth, we do!
Microsoft has no right to force us to store date we don’t need or want on our systems.
Microsoft has no right to install nagware onto our systems to get us to upgrade.
Microsoft has no right to push or bully us into replacing a perfectly working OS we rightfully own & have the legal right to continue using.
Finally, Microsoft has no right to make us do something we don’t want to do & has no legal right to do so! No should mean no.
I made a thread about this located here http://ift.tt/1XZBRqk & after some opinions & suggestions to make thread in the Feedback & Announcements section, I have done so!
Firstly & I think many of us have done this is to pop in a second HDD, install our windows 7 & then upgrade & activate just in case windows 10 improves & changes so were not losing out & then just pop in our old HDD & continue as normal. So this I would suggest so you don’t lose out!
Now the update’s we get from Microsoft on windows 7 are nothing short of pushy & misleading. I’ve listed these for you below.
1. KB 2952664- a secret snooping patch first pushed to Windows 7 back in April.
2. KB 2976978 – last issued in June, it is a scanner which sends diagnostics to Microsoft from CEIP participants.
3. KB 2977759 – another diagnostic scanner, this one analyses computers to see whether their hardware is compatible for upgrades to Windows 10 and sends the data to Microsoft.
4. KB 3035583 – this patch contains the infamous ‘Get Windows 10’ nagware pop-up which anyone who hasn’t upgraded to Windows 10 will likely have disabled by now
Well Microsoft thinks you need reminding, because now it has been reclassified as ‘Important’ and will therefore install automatically. So prepare for those Get Windows 10 pop-ups to start appearing again. Now to me this sounds like misleading or even lies to get you to upgrade. When has a free OS upgrade ever been important when our current OS is still working flawlessly? To a novice user like my son is would install this “important” update & then turn off his system to wake up with windows 10. This is not acceptable because my son’s laptop doesn’t support windows 10 or even functions correctly with windows ten. It simply refuses to load into the desktop regardless of how you try & install it so the only thing he or should I say I could do was format & re install windows 7. This caused great inconvenience & some data loss which would have been much worse if he didn't save backups onto a USB stick.
What right do Microsoft have to push a OS onto systems that do not support it or even work with it? Is this a deliberate attempt to force people into buying newer machines? This feels deliberate because I have contacted Microsoft via Live chat & what I was told is basically. If windows 10 downloads & installs, this means that the system/hardware is compatible & should work & any error's is down to the user & not the OS. I made my point very clear explaining that the Laptop in question does not work with windows 10 nor has driver's for key components for the laptop included with windows 10. The conversation got a bit heated on my side because the person I was talking sounded like he or she was reading from a script of possible questions & answers. Then I asked what gives Microsoft the right to download & install software without our permission. I never got an answer as the session suddenly ended!
This is damn right wrong & I am sure illegal practice because where is the user’s choice? As a business owner with over 180 windows 7 machines, the nightmare simply gets worse in preventing windows 10 from downloading its junk & the constant popups to upgrade. I have already asked my legal team to look into our options because we’re now forced to disable windows 7 updates entirely due to this problem.
I am 100% happy to continue using windows 7 on my home machines & my company machines. The practice Microsoft is undertaking is nothing short of pushy & trickery to get us to upgrade replacing our windows 7 or windows 8 we rightfully paid for & own. We want to keep our current OS. We don’t want to upgrade & forcing us by annoying the hell out of windows 7 & 8 user’s to do so is wrong.
Then we come to the downloading behind the scenes windows 10 files in hidden folders where the average user won’t even notice. This is wrong because in no way did I accept & agree for Microsoft to download content I do not want onto my systems. Nor did I give it permission to use my Bandwidth to do so!
I have scanned over the windows 7 License & EULA & I have found no mention of the right for Microsoft to store its data on our systems or upgrade our current OS to another of their choosing. I was going to say without our permission but simply using the windows is agreeing to it. But no mention means they are doing something which is foreign to our current windows agreement & can & I am sure will be challenged.
Microsoft do not own our computers, we do!
Microsoft do not own any hardware in our systems, we do!
Microsoft do not own or have any right to our bandwidth, we do!
Microsoft has no right to force us to store date we don’t need or want on our systems.
Microsoft has no right to install nagware onto our systems to get us to upgrade.
Microsoft has no right to push or bully us into replacing a perfectly working OS we rightfully own & have the legal right to continue using.
Finally, Microsoft has no right to make us do something we don’t want to do & has no legal right to do so! No should mean no.
I made a thread about this located here http://ift.tt/1XZBRqk & after some opinions & suggestions to make thread in the Feedback & Announcements section, I have done so!
Windows 10 Upgrade Pressure Is Excessive < STOP IT >
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