http://www.infoworld.com/article/304...ws-10-ads.html

Looks Like MS think they can do as they please. :hmmm:

http://www.askwoody.com/2016/windows...appened-to-me/

Its not considered to be polite to tell people that one told them so - but I told you so. It was just a matter of time until it would happen.

MS will do all it can to enforce people to submit to W10. The only way is to block all MS conneciton links to the system - BY STOPPING UPDATING via MS servers ALLTOGETHER.

As I explained earlier - I got updates sneaked onto my system even with Windows Uodate set to "off" as long as I had other background tasks running that automatically connect to MS servers by routine, clock synchronization, internet connection validation during booting and so forth.

Note that infamous update KB 3035583 now has been moved from "recommended" to "important".

In case of newly installing W7: DO NOT UPDATE the freshly installed W7 via online connection to MS, but use a manually downloaded older KB file archive with KB files of an older age (older versions of KB number files), untick all the known critical entries, and do not update beyond summer last year or so. Then switch off Windows Update once and forever, and deactivate all MS background tasks you can identify that by routine connect to MS servers. If you let MS not into your system via the frontdoor, they will break through the window, and if you lock the windows, they will try the cellar, and if that is sealed, they will climb thro9zugh the chimney. So barricade that freaking chimney, dude!

Needless to remind of this, but you need a dual boot system with an alternative OS, if doing like this. Using this kind of no longer security-updated Windows 7 for work or surfing, is dangerous - DON'T. Its a game- or needed-software-launcher - not more.

And it continues to get worse as Microsoft apparently thinks it has nothing left to lose and is going nuclear. Embedded in one of the normally safe security upgrades is, you guessed it, Windows 10 upgrade malware.

Microsoft buried a Get Windows 10 ad generator inside this month's Internet Explorer security patch for Windows 7 and 8.1

They are desparate. Desparate people are dangerous. Embedding malware in the operating system opens it up to piggy-back malware that will do much worse things. Be on the lookout for really vicious piggy-back malware using the holes opened by Microsoft's own malware.

If Microsoft doesn't come to its senses we may all be forced to use Linux or OSX this time next year, whether we like Windows or not. We are witnessing a corporate meltdown and it could melt us down with it.

A new list of updates which serve only to "help" upgrade your PC against your will. The top one is the security update above. I'd use your discretion against that one. Parts of it are a legitimate security update. Other parts of it are Windows 10 upgrade crap. As of this moment there are no exploits in the wild running for the weaknesses patched in the security update. That is subject to change, of course. This list also has a list of Microsoft servers used to "update" your computer to Windows 10. Those are blocked by Spybot Anti-Beacon, but blocking them in your router is a much more secure way to block them. In that case you are responsible for keeping the list current though.

Unfortunately, they will not melt down, but get away with their ways. Too many people out there not caring, not knowing, not giving a damn for anything. And the younger user groups have been raised in a Zeitgeist of not being bothered by being constantly nannied and overseen. It's all just "cool".

Machines will not need to take over the future by force. They just need to let mankind have its ways to stop thinking all by itself. The question "Why?" will become more and more unpopular. Only question will be "How to press the button?".

The signs for this kind of inner rottening and degeneration are written everywhere on the walls these days. MS's polices are just one of so many symptoms. Too many to list them all.

Wow MS strikes again...

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/NZvlOQyRFpk/hqdefault.jpg

http://www.infoworld.com/article/304...-their-ok.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/304...-upgrades.html

Democracy and freedom of choice have gone to the wall when it comes to MS. :o

My 'comfort level' ain't comfortable!~
 

Wow clearly that chap.....:o

If I went with Win10 like my friend I would never ever connect it to the Internet, the open door for MS. As for going on the Internet I would purchase a different OS that is not Windows.

The nice thing about my beloved Assetto Corsa simulator coming to consoles is that it reduces the already small number of games I still need Windows for, by one. :yeah: Its the most-played game/sim over here.

Wow 3 more optional updates and MS will beat last December's 40 optional updates. Bet there is a few Win10 plumbing in that list I just checked.

This illustrates better than most other facts that MS now is a gang of malicious skunks.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03...x_vs_humanity/

As it says somewhere:
"The language of the counter-malware industry is more appropriate than the language of enterprise IT for GWX. (...) The (...) patch constantly “mutates” – it is frequently revised to contain a new payload.(...) Windows Update considers each revision to the patch to be a new install instance. So every time Microsoft changes the KB2952664 update nomenclature, all previous attempts by the user to block the update are invalidated. Many users are unaware that uninstalling either KB3035583 or KB295266 only uninstalls a single revision of the patch; later, the patch can reinstall itself using an alternate revision number due to the fact that KB2952664 is being cached in C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download. A filtered registry dump on our test machine revealed there were more than 80 registry entries relating to the installation of ‘583 and ‘664"

Malicious skunks. And that is a polite way to describe them. I hope their company headquarter and divisions go up in flames, nobody needs companies doing like this.

Note that the GWX patch does not make you invulnerable to the described problem. If you put all your trust into it, its just a question of time before you impact on the concrete ground of reality.

Sky, did you send MS a Xmas card using similar words I highlighted in bold? :hmmm:

I am clean for the moment just have to wait and see what their next move will be after June when they stop the free give away of Win10.

Did I sound as if I care sending postcards?

Their policies stink to heaven, and I want them to go away and disappear and clean the market of their stinking, rotten presence. Their mere existence and the way in which by Windows being an indispensable precondition for launching most payware software, is to our all's disadvantage.

When in the late 80s Video 2000 appeared, it was the by far superior video standard: better image quality over VHS, and turning cassettes. But it had no chance against inferior VHS which by then already dominated 75% of the market and was consuming Beta and what else there was from early video standards. Its the same with Windows, it occupies the market and all software producers obey to MS's demands, just that you do not only deal with inferior quality, but also with policies that in my view overstep the red lines towards punishable misconducts. You see, if in a yera or so I buy a new system with latest hardware for updating my gaming rig, I will need to accept this rotten heap of skunk poo named Windows 10, since W7, as reported has been banned from running on latest hardware - hardware that from a certain "newness" on has been designed to block W7 and W8 and only allow W10. And that pisses me big time. There are still a couple of titles I need to launch via Windows and that I cannot compensate by migrating them to a console, like Assetto Corsa from summer on.

Monopoles always suck. Always.

Except for the monopolist.

I had the W10 on one of my computers, but when I noticed the updates and apps that did not work so I switched back to W7 64-bit.

And the latest strike by MS against W7 users:

"
I’ve been reading about people claiming their Windows Updates on Win 7 systems are now taking hours and even days.
I decided to do an experiment.
I’ve just now done a Windows update operation on a Win 7 x64 Ultimate test VM that was mostly up to date, and while I didn’t wait hours, I logged some 25 minutes of svchost core time just to get to the point where the list of available updates showed. Half an hour to wait!
I hid several updates (notably NOT including the latest update to the Windows Update process itself) and entered the “Downloading updates…” phase, where it sat for an additional half hour.
What’s special about all this? I’m watching CPU, disk, network, and DNS activity, and doing screen grabs.
For the lion’s share of the time both before and after seeing the list there’s absolutely nothing happening except a tight loop on one core in a svchost.exe process. NOTHING. I saw DNS entries resolved then half an hour of tight loop before being able to see the updates. Then, an additional 25+ minutes of tight loop time was actually chewed up before any downloads/installs started to happen. The last server name before the tight loop that was resolved to an address wasctldl.windowsupdate.com, and the first one after wasdownload.windowsupdate.com.
This must be intentional. It must be intended to aggravate or penalize people who do updates manually, and make people with older systems – worst, those with 1 core – suffer the most. My Xeon-based workstation is stupid fast, so waiting through 45 minutes of tight loop CPU time before even seeing the updates is an amazing, incredible, gargantuan waste of resources. During that time there was no significant disk activity at all, and none of what little there was didn’t seem related to anything to do with Windows Update!
I can’t help but think others would call this “tin foil hat” stuff, but by gosh we’ve been doing updates a long time. I don’t know about you but I’m so familiar with how my systems run that I can easily tell if something’s not right.
"

http://www.askwoody.com/2016/the-win...rever-problem/

Blow up to hell, MS. Just rethinking it, I will not go into W10, instead give up on gaming that needs Windows. Suckers like these shall not be rewarded.

In German law, Nötigung/coercion is a punishable offense.