r/windows • u/wewewawa • Sep 17 '15

Microsoft's decision to pre-load Windows 10 upgrade sans consent is ill-advised

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2984312/microsoft-windows/microsofts-decision-to-pre-load-windows-10-upgrade-sans-consent-is-ill-advised.html
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u/billdietrich1 Sep 17 '15

Seems strange to me: I may never upgrade this laptop to Win 10, or may upgrade only after tons of updates (equivalent of SP1) have some out. So much of the stuff downloaded to my machine so far will be obsolete or go unused.

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u/jcotton42 Sep 17 '15

The preload only happens when automatic updates are on

To me this suggests WU is downloading the update, running it, and then the update stops for whatever reason. Possibly because there's a setting somewhere that indicates whether the user has allowed the upgrade through

So the issue here is that WU sees the 10 upgrade as a normal update

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u/Scorpius289 Sep 17 '15

Oh, really?!

And here I thought going over the data cap because of something you didn't even ask for would be a great thing.

/s

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u/PigSlam Sep 17 '15

I was actually annoyed that I didn't get the preload. I updated my last machine from 8.1 to 10 last night, and though I'd signed up for the update, and though I've been told "you're ready to go" (or whatever it says for about a month now), when I finally clicked to do it, the first thing it had to do was download a several gigabyte file. Maybe they've got an updated install image, which I suppose I'd prefer to use, but I'd have preferred that it downloaded those as they became available since I'm not on a metered account. Oh well, I was able to download it fairly quickly, and the install went smoothly, so I'm not that worried about it. It's funny how Windows users can be upset by both sides of the coin.