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
    2016-03-01T15:32:19+00:00

    Vladmir

    All I am saying is keep your options open. I am not trying to persuade you to upgrade to Windows 10.

    I am keeping my options open by not installing any nagware, spyware, shoveware or any other Microsoft-knows-best-ware. Thanks for your suggestions, but I trust that approach to keep my options open a lot more than the one where I trust a company that uses underhanded tactics to sneak in an o/s that will take away any choice over what updates are installed on my computer.

    There is a third way that gives you the option of receiving all updates, except the upgrade to Windows 10. For me the choice in July 2016 will be whether to upgrade my two computers to Windows 10 or to stick with Windows 7 and Windows 8. I will have that choice. Those who have followed the advice of Canadian Tech and others may not because their operating systems are damaged goods.

    Please, do explain how making the choice to avoid "are you ready now?" prompts altogether turns our operating systems into "damaged goods".

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-03-01T14:53:11+00:00

    Hardly a rant. There are multiple rants in this thread against which you can compare my posts!

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-03-01T14:50:41+00:00

    Vladmir

    All I am saying is keep your options open. I am not trying to persuade you to upgrade to Windows 10.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-03-01T14:12:29+00:00

    I don't think he has.  He continues on his rant, as if he is a Win10 promoter.  Swimming up stream as it seems.  My suggestion is that no one replies to him any longer.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-03-01T13:58:35+00:00

    Either you consent on the “demands” of their bundle of software products/services or you better stay with an OS without updates.

    There is a third way that gives you the option of receiving all updates, except the upgrade to Windows 10. For me the choice in July 2016 will be whether to upgrade my two computers to Windows 10 or to stick with Windows 7 and Windows 8. I will have that choice. Those who have followed the advice of Canadian Tech and others may not because their operating systems are damaged goods.

    None of us wants Windows 10. Haven't you realized yet?

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