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
    2016-02-13T03:27:13+00:00

    I beta tested Vista as part of Windows Feedback Panel....the piece of junk that it is....

    Yesterday, I installed Windows updates on my Dell Venue with Windows 8.1.

    I am running the GWX Control Panel to prevent Windows 10 from being installed.  I have GWX Control Panel in monitoring mode. 

    After restarting the computer, GWX Control Panel monitoring mode was disabled.  Darn!  I would really like to use Windows Updates in Automatic mode. 

    Brenda

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-02-12T23:57:22+00:00

    Lets just start calling the OS ....

         Vista 2016

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-12T22:56:11+00:00

    Perhaps the future will prove them wrong .... might make an interesting MBA case study in corporate hubris.

    Could be. I don't recall anything like this happening when Vista came out or Win7. Maybe it's due to the new CEO.

    Off topic, but twitter isn't very successful with their tactics by ignoring their users.

    Time will tell how Microsoft fares.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-02-12T21:28:00+00:00

     The fact that Win7 is supported with Security Updates would make Microsoft sound like idiots if they went there.

    Microsoft's current strategy (using coercive techniques to get Windows 10 installed) already makes them appear unprofessional and desperate.

    They do not seem to care about what their customers think or want. They do not seem to care about loosing customers due to their behavior. They must be assuming that the majority of their customers will not look elsewhere for an operating system (because they know it is too difficult and time consuming for most users to do so). Perhaps the future will prove them wrong .... might make an interesting MBA case study in corporate hubris.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-02-12T20:15:40+00:00

    @ Legacy2000,

    I doubt Microsoft would go there as the push back would be more severe.

    Besides, what makes Win7 (my OS) a security risk as long as the Security Updates are installed? The fact that Win7 is supported with Security Updates would make Microsoft sound like idiots if they went there.

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