Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on more PCs

Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by ourmandave on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:26PM (#11826218)

I read a lot of people's comments of how their older PCs were bricked while I was fixing two issues when my laptop from 2009 was force upgraded.

I wait until there's been a service pack release before ever installing a new OS. Also I was perfectly happy with Win7.

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Re:Microsoft uses malware tactics to foist Windows 10 on mor... by JonathonW on Thursday June 02, 2016 @05:42PM (#11826313)

Microsoft's not using the "service pack" terminology any more, but Windows 10 has already had the equivalent of a service pack (the November update/1511) and is scheduled to get a second at some point this summer (currently in testing and called the Anniversary update).

They're also pushing out non-security bugfixes faster than they have in the past; the monthly Cumulative Update packages include security and non-security fixes, including some of the sort of hotfixes you might've had to call MS Support for back in the XP era.

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