How do you force a very major upgrade onto people's computers without knowing they've got a good, current backup? Why make so many people so frustrated and mad?
Why do you send all keystrokes (including websites) and all file indexes to Microsoft's cloud for “advertising?” How can this all be justified by saying, “You got this free, so shut up and keep taking this rape?”
Microsoft, with our next Windows computer, will no longer be our primary operating system. Linux, OpenBSD, and Apple will be our new primary OSes. Microsoft will be cut down to games and special programs, only. Windows 10 will have the vast majority of the remote websites it communicates with blocked at our router (I realize one or more of the 30+ sites it silently copies information to are required for updates). I will only allow future laptops to leave our home with a validated replacement software firewall that can't be routed around by ignoring of the hosts file exclusions, as the current Windows Firewall in Windows 10 appears to allow without showing what it is doing against any common sense understanding one might have.
Linux Mint with Cinnamon is the first free near full replacement of Windows available. I encourage all neophytes to consider that for your Internet, video/DVD, and Office-type needs.
LOL, whomever is in charge of her network is incompetent. As an I.T. person of any flavor, she should be embarrassed to have allowed her company to have computers in a network which would allow this to happen in the first place. Patches should long have been centrally controlled. Normal user accounts, including IT users, shouldn't possess the Admin privilege required for the install to even take take place.
Epic Nerd Fail!
Perhaps you could try what I have on the machines here: I dual-boot.
For pretty much everything, I run Linux since it is so stable and “just runs”. Especially for the internet, I only connect when I am running Linux, so the ‘doze partition never sees a connection and never attempts to “upgrade” anything.
Honestly, if it were not for some high-end programs that will only run on Windows (XP) I would do without it entirely, unfortunately, there are still some valued programs -and Computer Operated Machinery that are written for Windows, and Windows only, and will not operate under Wine as of yet. My CAD/CAM programs require Windows(tm) to run, so I can not get rid of it yet, but I never have a connection to the internet active when I am working in the ‘doze environment.
It has worked out quite well so far. :)
That'll probably become the new defense in rape trials. "Hey, I didn't charge her, so what's the problem?"