KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

I look after 140 client computers, virtually all Win7.  I have told my clients that if they choose to switch to Win10, they are on their own. 

I remain guarded about Win10.  I see absolutely no reason to run towards something with so many unknowns.  Microsoft is desperate to have this intro look good.  From all that I have read, they are meeting a lot of resistance.

The bottom line question is:

Is Windows 10 an updated Windows 8 with a better desktop.  OR   Is Windows 10 a better Windows 7.

If it is the former, they have blown it big time.  If it is the latter and it really is a better Windows 7, after some time it will be a big success.

Microsoft spent a lot of money and emphasis on making Windows 10 a product that would work equally well on a Microsoft cell phone and on a Surface tablet.  They have just written off many billions and are essentially closing down the $8 billion Nokia purchase – cell phones – not likely.  Surface at best has about 3% of the tablet market after 2 years of trying hard.  The tablet market is not growing at all.  I would not be at all surprised if they close down Surface too.

So they designed Windows 10 for all these devices and the only one that it will be used on is computers.  No one knows what design compromises they made to do this.

My plan is to not even consider an upgrade.  Some of my clients (I hope few) will buy new computers that come with Win10.  When that happens I will get a close look at it.  I will only consider recommending it after a great deal of exhaustive study.  Certainly, my clients will not get stampeded into a so-called "Upgrade."

Brother to the North,

I am reading your posts with great interest, and I agree wholeheartedly. For Microsoft to present this as an "Important" read Critical update is a farce at best.

I was a BETA tester for Windows 10 and I hated it. I had to have a Microsoft Account just to log on to my computer (my personal property I might add). Every time I logged on MS grabbed me by the short hairs and wouldn't release its grip until I logged off. I couldn't even play Solitaire without logging on to the Microsoft Store. It seems MS is following the Google groupie playbook where you can't use your computer unless you drink the kool-aid. 

As a Microsoft Professional and a tech who has been using and supporting Windows devices for over 20 years (not to mention actively selling their systems to clients) I am genuinely saddened at this unfortunate turn of events. I do not need Big Brother looking over my shoulder whenever I sit down at my computer and simply want to create a document.

If this is the future of the MS OS I will use my Windows 7 machine until it dies then switch to Linux.

This latest trick makes a liar of Vinod Raj P (see above, April 13, 2015).  He might have thought he was providing good advice about how to hide the update, but he didn't reckon with the Big Guy who made the decision to throw him under the bus so Microsoft could politely present KB3035583 for our approval one more time.

Unfortunately it is the third time I have seen this ""update"", or maybe the fourth.... I don't remember.

But..... it is only the second time that it has been labelled "important".

And it is maybe the first time that it has been actively "un-hidden".

Of course updates are "sort of" bespoke, so it could be a different scenario for other ""users""...........

Maybe I only just understood "the needle and the damage done"...

No, but the pain is similar...

So what does this mean?

Why do Microsoft want to annoy me. 

They "know" that I have already hidden this update (I had actively, with "full knowledge", rejected it!).

And still they try to ram it down my throat?

Why?

Is this, in American culture "irony"? (that subtle "pull" advertising endorsed by Swatch).

Do they need an informed opposition? (in the same way that Apple attracted anti-fan-boy hatred?)

Maybe they just think I am stupid? (uh-oh.... )

Mark this one "SOLVED"....

David.

When a company stubbornly insists on having its way despite customers' negative reaction, it's usually because:

---It has a monopoly

---It has no fear of lawsuits

---It has no fear of bad publicity, and assumes the vast majority of its customers don't care

---It's too stupid and incompetent to notice until this kind of stubborn disregard for the customer backfires.

Take your pick...