KB3035583 Installing Windows 10 using Windows Update?

Anonymous
2015-04-12T11:56:46+00:00

Would you please tell me how to prevent the installation of KB3035583 in my computer and if it is already installed, how to remove it?  Also, are there other updates that we need to be concerned about that enable this behaviour?

KB3035583 now appears as an Important update in Windows Update and is checked which means it will be automatically installed if the user does not uncheck it.  If automatic update is set, it will install without intervention.

There are credible articles that say that Microsoft either has installed or will install changes to my computer that will enable Microsoft to use it as an advertising platform and then install Windows 10 without first obtaining an informed decision to do so.  I truly hope this is not true.

On behalf of my clients and their 162 Windows "consumer" computers, I must tell you that we do not grant Microsoft or any other vendor the right to do this.  When other Windows players do this, we regard it as malware and take great care to remove it.

Microsoft got to where it is today by selling Windows.  We have spent decades learning how to use Windows and billions of dollars buying Windows computers and Windows software.  We own these systems.  They are ours, not Microsoft's.

Windows Update has earned a huge trust.  We trust Microsoft to use Windows Update to keep our computers safe and secure.  When Patch Tuesday comes along we install all the updates that Microsoft says are "important." We assume those to be either plugging a security leak or fixing a software error.

We all hope Windows 10 will be something we will want.  We will carefully review and consult trusted advisors before we install Windows 10.  We have seen Windows 8 and rejected it.  Windows 8 is a bad product we did not choose.  

Automatically installing Windows 10 on our computers would be a severe abuse of a well-earned trust.  Changing our computers to enable them to become advertising platforms is also an abuse.

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  1. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T10:40:06+00:00

    Canadiantech, Sorry to bother you directly again. I’ve some five or six PCs in the household (including family’s), all running Win7, happily. Can you point me to an (ideally concise and minimal) description how to safeguard Win7, please. – Incidentally. I got myself a red HP X2 for Christmas with Win10, as a toy (€ 300). So I had to learn a lot with space wasting programs (e.g. Live Mail). Just to get into the net Win10 is ok. Only once I had a complete loss of WiFis, as MS was insisting on »Wi-Fi Sense« (http://www.technorms.com/45873/how-to-use-wifi-sense-in-windows-10). They keep our gray cells in rotation … Fritz

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T06:50:21+00:00

    Maybe there will be no bubble. They will move your files without your agreement.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T01:31:10+00:00

    I think it is obvious that Microsoft's management do not care about their customer's needs, do not care about this thread, do not care about this web site (which has been outsourced and forgotten by M$), etc.

    M$'s management have their own plans for Windows as a Service and they do not want to be bothered by something as mundane as customer feedback/input.

    This anti-customer attitude is not new (we've seen it with Vista and Win 8), it's just getting worse (especially with the way in which customers are being coerced into running Windows 10).

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-20T00:15:22+00:00

    I suggest that reading this thread might just be quite a wake up call.  Now the challenge is to get them interested enough to be curious enough to actually try to understand what a customer is.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-19T23:48:02+00:00

    As a former "C suite" executive, I question whether Microsoft is getting much encouragement from senior management of its customer companies.  More likely these executives are wearily asking what's in it (Windows 10) for their employees and expressing reluctance to upgrade.  The number of senior business people who are so impressionable that they drink the M$ Kool-Aid is probably quite small.

    Which leaves us saying that the M$ misfires we have seen--Vista, Win8, and now Win10, perhaps--are their own creation, the product of a monopolistic enterprise unhinged from reality, because it gets no feedback that requires it to snap to.

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