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. Monkey57 3,535 Reputation points
    2016-01-18T06:39:00+00:00

    I tried to address the issue of Canadian Tech supporting his current 150 client computers, which i assume will only grow, and offered a suggestion on how he could maintain his clients at win7 (a Spiceworks community may better help).  Fighting KB3035583 in this thread, seems like a 'pop a mole' game.  

    It can be ignored, and updates can be controlled.    

    The choice of most of my clients is still Windows, and Win10 has been a much easier transition than win8, for clients that want(ed) to upgrade from previous OS, or bought new computers with the 'latest and greatest(?)'.  

    Quickly developing/deploying a new operating system across multiple hardware platforms and infrastructures via an upgrade, required a lot of software/technical feedback, and getting users clicking on an 'agree';  was a daunting task for Microsoft.  

    But I agree with many 'there are potentials for significant privacy concerns with data collection' from any program or operating system, especially Microsoft Win10.  Apple, Google and Linux are not immune from questionable data collection or security flaws.

    "whether the benefits exceed the costs as the users perceive them" is an extremely broad question. But the answer has a timeline.

    The cost are varied, and AT&T has changed their direction:

    http://news.slashdot.org/story/16/01/17/1339206/att-chooses-ubuntu-linux-instead-of-microsoft-windows

    More current operating systems have less known security flaws.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T06:17:20+00:00

    For me, the negative aspects of Windows 10 (forced updates, privacy issues, and the coercive ways in which Microsoft is pushing Windows 10 ... to name a few) far outweigh any slight /limited technical advantages that Windows 10 might have.

    I will keep Windows 7 on all my computers until the hardware rusts away ... then if Microsoft has not addressed their anti-customer behavior, I'll move to a non-Microsoft platform.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T05:54:21+00:00

    You can pose as the oracle of technological progress if you like, but Microsoft is not infallible, nor is it inevitable that the masters of the universe who run the show will get their way regardless of how the market reacts.  If that were true, Vista and Windows 8 would have been a great success.

    Your unfocused rambling ends with the suggestion that Windows 10 includes "many useful features," something you have not shown, and which does not hold true for many users.  Even if it were true, it would still come down to a question of whether the benefits exceed the costs as the users perceive them.

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  4. Monkey57 3,535 Reputation points
    2016-01-18T04:14:57+00:00

    Read the drawings on the wall of the caves, if you want to use current technology.  Fight the privacy stuff.  Every program phones home.  In 18 months, if you are a techy, you will be wasting time trying to make older Microsoft operating systems work on current/future production hardware.  The upgrade can be ignored, and 'is' in many businesses.  Home users need to pay attention to what they are updating, if they have old software they are trying to protect.  Not even Chrome will work on XP computers later this year.  Technology moves quickly, if you stop/stagnate at a train platform too long, there are many useful features you may miss out on.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T03:00:24+00:00

    And your point is what?

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