This is great information. Thank you for sharing it.
I'll definitely be keeping a lookout for it as I have absolutely no intention of upgrading any of my Windows 7 PCs to Windows 10. I am a strong believer in the old adage of "if it ain't broken, don't fix it." Mark -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 9:39 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Windows 10 push I didn't actually get upgraded. I got annoyed when Windows Update appeared to be stuck with this. So googled it. First, Microsoft sneaked it in a couple months ago as an optional item with the name Update for Windows 7 and a kb number. This installs the gwx aoolet which waits for you to press that button on the update page. Until you do, you cannot check for other updates. Here is a link to what I found today about what is expected next year. <http://www.computerworld.com/article/2999548/microsoft-windows/microsoft-to-get-pushy-about-upgrading-to-windows-10.html> Maybe by that time I will wean myself off Windows completely and uninstall Bootcamp. From E.T.'s Keyboard... ancient.ali...@icloud.com Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were true? On 10/31/2015 7:52 PM, M. Taylor wrote: > Hello E.T., > > I am so sorry you experienced that. It must have been extremely frustrating. > > All I can say is that no one with whom I interact, locally, has been forced > to upgrade to Windows 10. > > While I am a huge fan of Windows 10, generally speaking, I recommend > upgrading only to those running Windows 8.x. > > I strongly suspect, and this is only a supposition on my part, that you had > some kind of nefarious app forcing you to upgrade. > > That is to say, a colleague of a friend of mine in Texas, experienced a > similar phenomenon; as it turned out, her copy of Windows had been > compromised. I do not know if she was running Windows on a Boot Camp > partition or not but I do recall that the problem did not stem from the > native Windows OS. > > Can you imagine how the world would react were Microsoft to force people to > upgrade? > > Mark > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of E.T. > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2015 6:39 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Windows 10 push > > Let me put it like this. While that is probably true, Microsoft infected > my Windows installation on the Mac by trying to get me to let them put > Windows 10 on it. I could not in any way get past it and could not get other > Windows updates. I do not know what their game is, why they cannot let people > decide. > > From E.T.'s Keyboard... > ancient.ali...@icloud.com > Many believe that we have been visited in the past. What if it were > true? > > On 10/31/2015 6:32 PM, Shawn Krasniuk wrote: >> I thought Windows 7 wasn't gonna be totally phased out until 2020. Is this >> not true? >> >> Shawn >> Sent From My White MacBook >> Facebook Username: Shawn Krasniuk >> Twitter Handle: shawnk_aka_bbs >> Skype username: bbstheblindrapper >> Facetime: bbssh...@icloud.com >> >>> On Oct 31, 2015, at 5:25 PM, E.T. <ancient.ali...@icloud.com> wrote: >>> >>> Some of you may have put Windows 10 on your Macs under Bootcamp. I am >>> curious if there were major issues going from Windows 7. >>> >>> I am asking because Microsoft is going to make this happen one way or >>> another next year, with or without your consent. They already started the >>> first stage last month pushing this upgrade via Windows Update. >>> >>> How is Bootcamp handling this? >>> >>> From E.T.'s Keyboard... >>> ancient.ali...@icloud.com >>> Many believe that we have been visited in the past. 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