No, that's explicitly not how MS updates worked: up to now, they were updates to existing OS, not automatic reinstall.
If I don't want it, I don't get asked if I want it: 19:00 there was a working Win7 box, 07:00 next day, there was a broken steaming pile of something, apparently Windows 10. No prompts, full auto.
Program files: deleted. Users folder: moved into some other location (both). I don't give a flying fork if that was intentional, it should not have happened, full stop.
In other words, FU, astroturfer. Take your piece of crap and shove it. (Yes, your wonderful Windows Nein has given us about a man-year of unplanned maintenance so far, so you see how happy I'm about it)
A semantical difference really, previous windows updates just didn't include major UX revamps.
>If I don't want it, I don't get asked if I want it: 19:00 there was a working Win7 box, 07:00 next day, there was a broken steaming pile of something, apparently Windows 10. No prompts, full auto.
surely you got an EULA prompt, no?
>Program files: deleted. Users folder: moved into some other location (both).
I certainly agree that microsofts QA has failed horribly here.
>In other words, FU, astroturfer.
One could easily accuse you of the same.
Who exactly got an EULA prompt on an unattended, locked workstation with nobody at the sear? As I say, the downgrade was full auto: evening W7, morning W10.
Blame your OEM, they're responsible for keeping their drivers functional. Microsoft didn't just go behind OEMs backs and do this.
>Who exactly got an EULA prompt on an unattended, locked workstation with nobody at the sear? As I say, the downgrade was full auto: evening W7, morning W10.
That's certainly strange, are you sure it wasn't just the W10 installer? Or did it really go straight to the login screen?
Oh wait. That's what we did, found that the drivers weren't there, and FRIKKIN DECIDED NOT TO UPGRADE because of this. Acceptable risk of running a recently EOLed product and all that.
Nope, nope nope nope, Microsoft knows better: "here's your new nonfunctional box, not our problem anyway."
No, not an installer: a fully upgraded, but - sadly - significantly dysfunctional W10 (Note that other users around the thread offering similar experiences, so your insistence that it can't ever ever happen sounds very much like wishful thinking). As I said: we have repaved from backups, installed GWX Control Panel, and disabled Windows Update. Personally, I am pretty angry about that last thing, too - but I had no power over mgmt: thanks to your poisoned update, they don't trust it to actually bring security fixes any more, quite the contrary: you, in effect, have mounted a denial-of-service attack on us via WU and nobody cares if it was intentional - "Windows breaks by itself when you need it the least" is now firmly believed by everyone affected (we are considering a move from Win altogether, because for all we know, you might have some other control channel up your sleeve for pushing some more "upgrades").
This is a particularly shitty meme, can we just stop with it?
>IMSHNO installs without user consent (closing a "upgrade now?" window counts as "no" anywhere, including MSFT UX Guidelines, hello there hypocrisy)
This is how windows updates have always worked, no?
>breaks existing applications (not every box is just Firefox+LibreOffice: specialized apps and drivers do not work well in WinX)
>while the downgrade ("better to worse" is never an upgrade) runs, you can't use your device ("preparing for blahblah, wait.")
These do not malware make.
>erases (or at best hides) user data ("yeah well we just put it all in this completely different folder without notice, it's not like you need your documents, right?")
Try to decide which. Erasing and hiding are two completely different things. And again, this does not make it malware as I doubt they're intentionally deleting anyones files.
>is very difficult to revert
Significantly easier than any previous windows version. If you don't want it, why would you install it? You can just decline the install when the installer starts.
>phones home (again, MS claims there is user consent. So do all the malware writers; I don't think so.)
Yes and so did every windows version before it. Significant parts of the new telemetry have also been backported. Oh, and malware writers certainly don't claim that.
>Each and every of these are traits commonly associated with malware; thank God for GWX Control Panel.
No.