I’d suspect this is all “user error”. As others have said, you’d have to click do the update and even if it were automatically running on those who chose “later”, declining the ToS would stop it.
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I wish it was user error. Automatic updates were set for my wife’s laptop with Win7. One morning just a couple of weeks ago she’s face-to-face with Windows 10.
She’s using it now and doesn’t have any problems, she just ignores extraneous junk (”tiles”, MS Edge since she uses Chrome, goofy menu since she uses nothing but desktop icons, etc.).
I suspect the biggest problem she will have is when she gets on Skype with her webcam. I have identical brand/model, and it never works right. I have to unplug it, replug it, say incantations, bow toward Mecca, and curse a lot to make it work. This is even after trying to update the drivers for it, and it used to work great in Windows 7 64bit on both machines.
[[She’s using it now and doesn’t have any problems, she just ignores extraneous junk (”tiles”, MS Edge since she uses Chrome, goofy menu since she uses nothing but desktop icons, etc.).]]
Download ‘classic shell’ for windows 10 to give you back the familiar windows 7 or 8 start menu without all the tile nonsense of windows 10
One other bit of nastiness I noticed.
CD/DVD drives don’t burn disks successfully anymore.
I’ve got a spare Linux machine in the house (didn’t want to spend any more money on an OS, but wanted a spare computer to experiment on and use as a live backup for connecting to work via VPN) that I utilized for the CD burn I had to do recently. Brasero works like a charm.