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
    2015-10-19T09:57:41+00:00

    Batch it out? Could someone please create a batch file using "wusa" for the command ("DOS") window, throwing out the unwanted "updates" one by one. If an update has already been discharged, the wusa error message should not halt the batch. We then could run this batch ever so often at the end of a working day, even schedule it as task.

     Wusa: "Windows update standalone installer", https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/934307 – Fritz

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T01:55:28+00:00

    I have read those user's complaints and I am among them:-) The bottom line is like some other big corporations, they really don't care what those that bought and buy their products think or prefer.

    I'm reminded of what happens to those that bite the hand that feeds them.

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T01:38:51+00:00

    Remember curiosity and the cat:-)

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T00:46:20+00:00

    redbear2,

    Regarding Microsoft's free email in the cloud .... I've been using web based hotmail.com (which became outlook.com) for a long time. My biggest complaint is that Microsoft keeps making changes (the new outlook.com Preview is described in the second link of your previous post) without actually listening to what their customers want (sounds familiar ... lack of customer respect seems to be plaguing all areas of Microsoft).

    Current outlook.com customers have no say in whether or when their account gets converted to the new outlook.com Preview. Once an account is converted, there is no way to go back. Check out the feedback site for outlook.com Preview to see what customers are complaining about.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-10-19T00:22:15+00:00

    Couldn't resist peeking?  LOL.

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