No way out as Microsoft makes Windows 10 upgrade compulsory to download

Microsoft Updates โ€œGet Windows 10โ€ Prompt for Windows 7/8.1 Users, No Longer Offers Reject Option

Microsoft is getting more and more aggressive with its ‘Convert World To Windows 10’ campaign that it has now become absurdly brazen. In the latest update, Microsoft is pushing up itsย โ€œGet Windows 10โ€ app to computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 without any option to reject it.

If you are a Windows 7/8.1 PC/laptop owner and you havenโ€™t yet disabled the Get Windows 10 app, the prompt linked to the upgrade is now recommending you to install the new OS and even gives you two different options viz, upgrade now and start download, upgrade later. Microsoft has now removed the ‘no’ย completely.

The screenshot that you see here has been posted by PCWorldโ€™s Brad Cachos, who himself received this upgrade prompt and said that although he didnโ€™t press the small arrow on the right edge of the window, finding a way to reject the Windows 10 upgrade was more challenging than before.

While, Microsoft’s yearning to bring all PC/laptop users aboard its new Windows operating system is appreciable, this new found aggressiveness is pretty bad.ย This new part of Microsoftโ€™s strategy to forcing everybody to Windows 10 may actually counter its goodwill and turn Windows 7/8.1 off.

Fortunately, there are ways to do that and get rid of the Get Windows 10 app. Thus, as soon as the upgrade is listed as a recommended download, you can simply uncheck the update and hide it completely, but thereโ€™s no doubt Microsoft will also look into alternative methods to continue pressing you to install it.

That said, the free period to upgrade from Microsoft 7/8.1 to Windows 10 is ending in July, 2016 so Windows 10 is the future.

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