If You Don't Like Windows10?

chuckbear wrote:
The one issue I have with the W10 upgrade is the forced updates. You have no way to turn them off. It isn't about the updates themselves but being forced to update can eat up big chunks of my data plan without my control. Now we do our updates when we have access to WiFi, and defer them when we are using our data. These updates cab be hundreds of MB's and you won't be able to stop them. We just may stay with our Windows 7 since there have been no issues with it and the support will still be there until this computer bites the dust. But of course, this is just my opinion and we all know what opinions are like. Chuck

You should be able to set the connection as metered so that only the very high important downloads will be forced and you can do the rest when you aren't metered.

1492 wrote:
Sure you can. What I always do before upgrading the OS is to make sure to have a full system image backup. If you don't like the new OS, or worse, encounter issues, just restore the old one from the image. End of life support ends in 2023 for WIN 8.1, 2020 for WIN 7. Free updates end for WIN 10 on 2025.

Just to be the devil's advocate here. What if, when you use the free upgrade to W10, your COA is automatically registered as 10. When you are fed up and re-image your original, MS's servers may well flag as not genuine. Just a thought but worth checking into before a change. :E
Art.

Unfortunately, this is not the release WIN 10 EULA "Computerworld examined the EULA included with Windows 10 build 10240, the version pushed to beta test participants Wednesday. It's still the beta version, not the final release as confirmed by Microsoft? Computerworld can speculate all they want, which is quite the norm in media, but not official until it comes from the horses mouth? No pun intended.

In any case, going on this EULA, where does it say that you cannot use WIN 10 if you do not install all the updates? It appears to indicate that you will be blocked from future updates if you don't do so? But this is what has already been done with WIN 8, for those you did not chose to upgrade to WIN 8.1. They would not receive future updates?

So don't see anything that says you cannot delay installing updates?

Can't find the License Agreement right now. But here are some excerpts, including the update requirements and a simple explanation.

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2949324/operating-systems/windows-10-license-confirms-no-warning-automatic-updates-and-upgrades.html

Where is Microsoft's Windows 10 terms of use posted? Not for the Preview, which tends to be different by nature. But for the actual release version?

They have absolutely said that the W 10 updates must be allowed. The license terms that all users must agree to allow Microsoft to install updates automatically. If you block them, they cut you off and you can not get further updates including security issues. You’re not allowed to disable Windows Update entirely, and you’re also not allowed to put updates off if you don’t want to install them. To me this is troubling giving Microsoft's recent record of problem updates. This time around, in addition to security updates you are forced to add any new features or modifications Microsoft decides to do to the operating system and if one does not work, oh well. Microsoft says feature updates will be tested on consumer devices before they’re rolled out to business PCs. That does not give me warm and fuzzies. Chuck

I would find it strange if MS didn't consider an option for allowing updates only on WiFi, so as not to use up mobile data? But stranger things have happened where MS is concerned?

In any case, there are ways to block any updates until you allow them. The firewall being one. The question being if MS will use a model attuned to Adobe Cloud, where you must authenticate every 4 months(?) on the Net to continue having access to their software. Or, in this case, the OS?

You have to b very careful about when to upgrade to W-10, as my computer manufacturer told me. They were very emphatic about NOT doing the change over until they authorize it, as the drivers for W-7 are NOT compatible with W-10. They said they will tell me when they have updated to the correct drivers and then I can do the upgrade, if I want.

I may be incorrect, but it's my understanding that the only exemption is people using Windows 10 Enterprise Edition, the business version of the operating system. That will not help the average consumer like most of us. Chuck

I guess that's it for me ever suggesting google again (without providing the actual link as was done above). It's been fun.