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Well, here's anecdotal evidence: my coworker, a web/app developer and occasional server administrator and generally very computer-savvy guy, had this happen to him over the weekend. He refused the upgrade every time, and it still upgraded without his permission. I suspect he had the default "install recommended updates the same way as important updates" setting.
I got the new popup just like the article shows tonight. Others will be bitching about this soon enough too. We have been conditioned to click the "X" since the beginning of time so it's an easy mistake to make. Very sleazy.
I can't imagine a company with lawyers as good as MS's haven't thought about this and are safe.
I also had this happen to me while I was connected to a work machine via remote desktop. The notification must have come up at some time during the day while I was working. I closed the full screen remote desktop window at the end of the day and saw the "your machine will upgrade to windows 10 in 8 minutes" window.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3095675
What are the shill's defense now? straight from MS domain.
Saying that, MS have reverted that X thing now.... shady f#'ks
hasnt happened to me personally because i removed the kb5583 update despite it coming back all the time. But it did happen to my roomate, shut his computer off for the night and turned it back on with Win 10. He also told me that a lot of computers at his work had the gwx panel on them, i told him it would be a shitshow for him if they updated overnight as they are an accounting firm. Sure enough he texts me that next day saying one of the PC's there upgraded overnight. I also think its pure bullshit that MS will download an entire OS and hide it on your machine just to wait for you to accidentally hit upgrade. I had that WindowsBT folder crap on my root of C: Thanks MS for downloading a 3.5GB image on saving it on my pc without letting me know, my SSD really appreciated it. If MS would be less vague with their update information then none of that would've happened to me, but no they label the KB5583 update as a security update or whatever and thats it. If they labeled it as "This fucking stupid update will download the windows 10 image on you pc and add the GWX panel so you can upgrade at anytime" Then i would have hid it immediately.
In other words, there's no more plausible deniability left. There's no question any more: Microsoft are knowingly tricking people into installing Windows 10. This ain't incompetence. This ain't user error, or poor UI. This is outright deception.
Yep, i wondered wtf the folder was so i looked through it and though "this looks just like a windows image, why is this here" Did some research and found hundreds of reports that MS snuck it in there with some vague update that ended up being the KB5583 update. That was the last straw for me and I dont want windows 10 anymore.
task manager and look for GWX.exe? If that is running then end that process and the window should go away. Look into the "view installed updates" section and find the update KB3035583 and uninstall it. That removes the upgrade BS. Then after you restart your pc do a search for updates and that KB3035583 update should pop up. Just right click and hide update.Any thoughts on how to get past this one?
Came up at work the other day. There isn't even a red X to click...
That was the solution that we ended up doing (I skipped the task manager part and went straight to uninstalling the update, then hiding the update after doing a search for new updates (because I've found it doesn't always show up right away on the next restart)), but it was interesting that I hadn't seen that particular popup before. All the past ones I've seen were either the X to close out/cancel or the hidden-in-plain-sight cancel upgrade link, but this one had no obvious way to close it (for the average user). Hiding the KB3035583 update isn't a permanent solution as I've found out with a couple of our meeting room PCs. The update makes its way back.
Yeah its fucking retarded. Its like they disabled the hide feature on that update in hopes someone will hide it once and hopes it never comes back and then accidentally installs it again because they didn't think it would come back since you technically told it to stop showing up.
I wish he'd shown the window (or better still a video) of what's changed. If this is true, MS is screwing up, but I just left my parents place and my mother still hasn't upgraded. I think if this was really being forced, and the change he mentioned has made the old way of not installing 10 a way to install 10, she'd have upgraded to 10 a few weeks before her intended upgrade date (mid June).
My theory is that every time they tweak it and republish it as an update, it is treated as a different update, despite having the same KB number, so even if you hid the old one, it's treating it like a new one. It's sitting in the optional list on my computer with a publish date of 5/3/16. KB3035583 is definitely not only 3 weeks old.
