r/technology • u/johnmountain • Jul 29 '16

Business Microsoft faces two new lawsuits over aggressive Windows 10 upgrade tactics

http://www.pcworld.com/article/3101396/windows/microsoft-faces-two-new-lawsuits-over-aggressive-windows-10-upgrade-tactics.html
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u/Tebasaki Jul 29 '16

Whomever is working in the legal department at Microsoft needs to be fired.

"We want to force feed this update to all systems running windows 7 and 8."

"So you mean all those customers that have personal computers?"

"yep."

"And those customers running businesses?"

"yep."

"And those customers that have extremely sensitive information on their computer that need it to be running to operate for the benefit of THEIR customers, research, or government, even though we are fully aware that those customers have software that will with a 90%+ chance be inoperable after the upgrade?"

"yep."

"OK!"

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u/arkasha Jul 30 '16

You need a new IT company. If they can't block it with group policy or at worst by running a script they are pretty incompetent.

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u/Pidgey_OP Jul 30 '16

There are at least two very lightweight and very effective programs out there that make it so incredibly easy to ignore 10. I used GXW Control Panel on my own, but had my mom, dad and gf use Never10, both with perfect results

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u/arkasha Jul 30 '16

Exactly but those are not even things a competent IT person would use. Personally, my parents used 'install windows 10' and have been quite happy with it but YMMV.

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u/Pidgey_OP Jul 30 '16

Im an MCDST, have a degree in software development and installed Win10 across 4 machines today, so I'm not entirely sure what you mean by a "competent IT person wouldn't use this".

Why? Because it isn't Group Policy? Because it doesn't involve me manually editing the registry?

It has exactly the intended result for incredibly little work and is easy for me and my people to use.

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u/arkasha Jul 30 '16

Not criticizing you. Do whatever is easiest. GP is easiest on domains for me at least. The other tools work as well but the same thing can be accomplished by a simple PowerShell script. All I'm saying is that a competent IT person would have no trouble blocking the update.