[DeTomaso] NPC: Microsoft is sneaking the Windows 10 update onto PCs

thomas thomas at hax.se
Fri May 20 13:13:05 EDT 2016


And here I tried to upgrade one of my VM:s to win10, only to be told that the version of VMware Fusion I use does not support win10 😜

> 20 maj 2016 kl. 18:55 skrev Asa Jay Laughton <asajay at asajay.com>:
> 
>   Why do I feel like making a shortt joke here?
>   Yes, I got the popup on one of my home machines and I usually just
>   dismiss it until I have time to remove the KB update -again- (why does
>   Microsoft keep overiding my wishes)...
>   Except -this- time instead of dismissing it, it automatically scheduled
>   the upgrade.  I was like...WTF?  I had to manually unschedule it.  Now
>   I'm fearful its automatically doing it to that home computer while I'm
>   at work.  Not cool.
>   Asa
>   Sent using Jedi Mind Tricks
> 
>   Larry Stock <larrys at panteraparts.com> wrote:
>   Thanks for the heads up Ken, All of our company clients computer in our
>   network system just started updating too. We are a Manufacturing
>   company
>   that uses serial communications to all our machines that windows 10
>   donA^1t
>   offer proper serial communications anymore since Microsoft figures that
>   nobody uses serial communications, so why offer it. We are stuck with
>   Widows 7 apparently. I got my son a lap top for his racing data logger
>   that automatically upgraded to windows 10 last year and he lost
>   everything. I had to buy a second laptop with the old Windows program
>   for
>   him to use and trash the first one. Maybe Microsoft needs to give us a
>   choice before giving us all this new technology for free. This is going
>   to
>   screw up manufactures all over the country today.
>   Larry
>   On 5/20/16, 8:59 AM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Ken Green via DeTomaso"
>   <detomaso-bounces at server.detomasolist.com on behalf of
>   detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:
>> 
>>  I stepped away from my desk for a minute, and when I came back, my
>   PC
>>  was installing Windows 10.  I did not select the update because
>   some
>>  expensive software I have may not run under Windows 10.
>>  If you don't want this to happen, you have to change the setting in
>>  Widows Update to allow you to chose to install updates.
>>  Ken
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