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
    2016-01-18T09:16:37+00:00

    My thoughts exactly ?

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T09:55:11+00:00

    I didn't trust Windows Update when it was first introduced. I always turned it off. But gradually, year after year, I slowly started trusting it. I came to see that the benefit of security and bug fixes outweighed the risk of getting breaking changes. Eventually, I started letting Windows Update install automatically. Trusting that Microsoft would use this backdoor into my computer for good only.

    KB3035583 has shattered that trust.

    Now I'm afraid of the evil things Microsoft could do with this power. Sure, someone can argue that this is an "update" to a new Windows version. But what is next?

    Maybe a notification bubble that says "We see you're using DropBox. Click here to move all your files to OneDrive".

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T11:20:09+00:00

    Even an update to a new version of Windows would not justify the actions that Microsoft chose to take.

    A number of professionals, myself included, use specialist software. Not all of this will run with the earlier or current versions of Windows 10.

    Some of the Wacom software is a case in point. Microsoft simply decided that the customers using software not sold by Microsoft do not matter. The fact that people had paid for Windows 7 was irrelevant to them.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-18T13:48:19+00:00

    Microsoft publishes how to prevent constant conversion requests at

    https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3080351.

    We have legal complaints vs. Microsoft in Germany for pushing Windows 10; so that seems a reaction.

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