Maybe a few of our customers weren't lying.

When Win10 is offered as an essentially hidden optional update, there is about a 90-95% chance of it being installed accidentally!
 
I know I have seen quite a few tech insist their customers knowingly updated. This may explain some of those situations.
 
Happened to one of our techs in fact. She was updating windows 7 after a N&P and after she got most of the updates windows 10 showed up as a optional update that was checked by default, and she just hit install updates one more time and hey presto there's windows 10. She re-did it from scratch and thats how she figured it out.
 
Larry Mashburn said:
I'm sure many cases have been caused by curiosity. But this update supposedly completes the install with no user interaction.
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And I flat don't believe it. The number of end users that click on anything is obvious from the amount of malware we remove. It most every case the end user stupidly/ignorantly clicked on something. Yes they have push downloaded the files onto your PC but the end user HAS to select OK in order for it to install.
 
I think there may be some truth to the forced upgrade. A few days ago, I walked into the fire hall for an ambulance call (it's a volunteer service) and the computer running the dispatch screen had a window up that said ready to install Windows 10, click OK to continue. There was no option to cancel or close out the window. I had to kill the process from Task Manager. I am 99% certain that no one was in the building for at least 24 hours before that since there were no calls or events going on. When I checked Windows updates there were still critical updates from the last patch Tuesday release that were not installed yet. That system was set to prompt for Windows Updates.
 
I am seeing a new pop up with two button choices. Now or later. Without thinking I hit later and 5 minutes later it started trying to install. You have to hit the x and close this popup window. Most customers even if they do not want it are going to press later. Pretty sad MS is using misleading spyware type tactics.
 
Pics or it didn't happen. Because for all the claims that this is supposedly happening I can't find anyone that has managed to catch it and document it.
stro said:
I am seeing a new pop up with two button choices. Now or later. Without thinking I hit later and 5 minutes later it started trying to install. You have to hit the x and close this popup window. Most customers even if they do not want it are going to press later. Pretty sad MS is using misleading spyware type tactics.
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And before you get prompted for that you get prompted with this:
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You have to hit accept or decline. And because it says Windows update at the top and Accept/Decline buttons are standard in Windows Updates features you hit Accept and don't realize that you didn't accept for just that month's malware update you just told it to upgrade to Windows 10. You then get this:
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When you hit later you get this:
sshot-72.png

At that point you only get a 3 day windows to put it off. And when it starts it will just start. But to start this process you MUST hit accept to begin it. SO, no I don't buy it.

But I will say that most end users and even techs are so conditioned to hit Accept that it is very easy for them to do so.
 
stro said:
I am seeing a new pop up with two button choices. Now or later. Without thinking I hit later and 5 minutes later it started trying to install. You have to hit the x and close this popup window. Most customers even if they do not want it are going to press later. Pretty sad MS is using misleading spyware type tactics.
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Same here. I wasn't paying attention to what it said and clicked the "later" and it tried to do a download or something.

MS is really trying to force this on people.....
 
NYJimbo said:
It's true. Small box on the bottom right. Tells you about Win 10 and if you click the LATER or whateve it is it will start the download..
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Like this one?

Task-Message.png


Note it HAS an X. You can get out of this. You can even just click outside the box and it will go away. Again the end user has to start the process. Now you can argue, and I'll agree, that it is too easy to start the process but the claims that the end user did NOTHING I flat don't believe.
 
nlinecomputers said:
Like this one?

Task-Message.png


Note it HAS an X. You can get out of this. You can even just click outside the box and it will go away. Again the end user has to start the process. Now you can argue, and I'll agree, that it is too easy to start the process but the claims that the end user did NOTHING I flat don't believe.
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Nope, its not a "you're ready". Wait a few days, this will become news.
 
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