Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 because it has links to the Microsoft Store, to sell more stuff (apps, games, music, videos, etc) like the Google Play Store or the Apple Store.
Windows 7 doesn’t have links to the Microsoft Store. So that’s why Microsoft is pushing Windows 10. The upsell.
If you keep Windows 7, Microsoft doesn’t make any more money from that. From inside of Windows 10, Microsoft can sell you more things. Follow the money.
Windows 10 upgrades are essentially date rape of the computer world. You wake up and realize what has happened when you were asleep.
This happened to me last week, turned the PC on and went to do something while it booted. Came back to find I was in the middle of the upgrade that I had declined about 70+ times over the past months. Well....you do not want to interrupt that process.
It installed fine, looked OK, because if I didn’t have 18,297 ways to reconfigure my opening screen and 1,825 ways to resize the tiles and 7,289 variations of desktop wallpaper I simply could not work the way I do.
But neither could I work the way I do with my second monitor dead and the card invisible to the OS so I could not see it nor get a new driver for it. A call to the mfr of that card determined that there was no suitable driver for WDOs 10. So back to 7 I went.
If your computer is over ~~5 years old and you have almost anything lashed up to it via a card, in other words, in anything but a very very vanilla configuration, you’ll almost certainly lose the driver to that device and it won’t work any more. This is just a fairly plain two-headed video card for driving two monitors.
I too was deeply offended by the unagreed-to upgrade and let MSFT know in no uncertain terms.
The problem with win 10 in my case was the auto updates didn’t kill my installed engineering software until after the thirty days. It all just stopped working. Then, the engineering software companies refused to support win 10
Me: NOPE. Why?
Wife: Go look at your computer....you've successfully upgraded to WIndows 10.
Sigh...left negative feedback about the upgrade: "FORCED UPGRADES without consent is unethical. My next PC will be a MAC."
It happened to my daughter today
I haven’t tried this but:
To access this, open the Start menu and select Settings. Click the “Update & security” icon and select “Recovery.” You should see a “Go back to Windows 7” or “Go back to Windows 8.1” option. Click the Get started button to get rid of your Windows 10 install and restore your previous Windows install.
How to Uninstall Windows 10 and Downgrade to Windows 7 or 8.1
http://www.howtogeek.com/220723/how-to-uninstall-windows-10-and-downgrade-to-windows-7-or-8.1/
People who continue to use PC’s with all the ongoing chicanery in whicl MS indulges, remind me of people who continue to try to maintain older British cars!
I think they are like people who continue to maintain that Lyin” Ted is a “principled conservative.”
Here is a funny Windows 10 popup video.
A reporter was giving a live weather report on TV recently when the weather computer popped up, on air, a notice that the Windows 10 upgrade was ready:
MICROSOFT WINDOWS 10 Update Interrupts Weather
https://youtu.be/VMPeTrHNX1U
Bump just in case my Windows 2000 gets raped...
bring
happened to me Sat, was away from my computer for 2 hours, came back & it was copying files to 10, reverted back to 7 & now it says not authentic, cant stop the auto updates, turn them off, restart the computer and they immediately check for updates.
I’m in for a class action lawsuit!
It didn’t deceive me, it just did it! One day I went in there and it said “ Welcome to Windows 10” aaaccckkk took me a half an hour to get to what I needed initially, now that I’ve found my faves I’m ok. I’m waiting for when I want something new!
tx fer the post guy! [gwx control panel installed now...]
Microsoft’s economic future depends on the “adoption rate” of its latest crapware.
Tricking users into upgrading shows just how desperate and what Evil bastards they are. They don’t care. The only thing they care about are the ‘adoption rate’ numbers - something they can bring to the board. Microsoft are bastards; they really suck, but as long as consumers buy their stuff and put up with tricks like this...
My mid-eighties mother, bless her heart, had enough sense to leave that annoying trickware crap alone and thus avoid the pitfall.
And upgrading and then downgrading will leave your system a mess.
Linux: FREE, fast, secure.
There’s a lot of support technicians that cannot have W10. Would probably have to run VMs for their existing apps, lose use of peripherals and legacy apps, would be an instant crap mess.
Run CMD and enter wusa /uninstall /KB:3035583
Uninstalls update KB3035583, the W10 popup.
There are hardware and software that will not work with Windows 10 that worked well on Windows 7. Printer drivers etc
I have CorelDraw X3 which is 10 years old but works great on Windows 7 on my desktop pc but when I installed Windows 10 on the laptop then CorelDraw X3 would not work. My work around was to install it in the free Oracle Virtualbox using Windows 7. I did not want to pay $500 for the latest version of Corel.
Bump....
Rapeware.