good old KB3035538 is now an "IMPORTANT" update.

[hobbit709]

I hid it before when it was a "recommended" update but now it's back. They really want to stick you with 10, whether you want it or not.

[earthshine]

1. It just came in -- again -- as an optional update in W8.1. I've hidden this thing before.

They want it too badly. One cannot shut off all the spying (telemetry) functions in 10, no matter what one does.

Has to be blocked at the router.

I'm confident they'll throw this update at us again with a different KB#.

[drm604]

2. It's still labeled as optional for me. I just hid it again.

What's really annoying is that they don't describe what it is in the update window. You have to click a "more information" link to open a web page to see that it's for Windows 10. I'm pretty sure that they add this extra step to make it less likely that people will realize what it is.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I don't get the hatred of 10...

especially if you've already fallen into 8.1. I agree with anyone who says that miserable Edge browser sucks, but other than that it's been extremely stable and useful so far. I like it better than 8.1, which I liked better than 7. (Or does that make me the asshole?)

MS does spy on you, but can anyone seriously say it's more nefarious than Amazon, Google, or Facebook?

Or NSA?

[lastlib]

4. I do NOT WANT them spying on me. Period. THAT is what's nefarious.

I have a right to do my work and get my recreation without some snoop-ass corporation poking ther noses into it!

[Go Vols]

5. I will go to Linux before I go to win10

Open source seems better than proprietary if I have to learn a new OS.

I block M$ prolly 30-50 times a day now,but I still get updates.?

[TreasonousBastard]

6. Yeah, we all think we do, but snoop-asses are watching every thing we do...

whether we like it or not.

Staying away from W10 isn't going to stop Google from tracking your every move. Or Target from studying your purchasing habits.

Or your car from memorizing your driving habits.

[hobbit709]

7. You can minimize most tracking.

My 24 year old pickup doesn't have a computer that tracks me.
My phone isn't used for anything except making/receiving calls. All other features are OFF
Google is not my search engine.
I don't particularly care for an OS that won't let me tweak settings and even tries to hide some of them from me.
Most of my purchases are made with cash.

[earthshine]

8. One thing has nothing to do with the others.

Great, you love 10! We get it. Other people don't.

My main system runs quite stable under 8.1. I tried the upgrade to 10, it crashes all the time.

That Google spies on me, does not mean I should let Microsoft do it. Microsoft is much closer to my every action than Google.

It's none of their business what programs I run, when I run them, or for that matter who I am.

I have a Microsoft developer account. All my Windows systems use only local logins.

[Gore1FL]

9. I actually like win 10, but there is a GPO that will kill it.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/charlesa_us/archive/2015/06/25/how-to-remove-block-and-prevent-quot-get-windows-10-quot-application-for-corporate-environments.aspx

[hobbit709]

10. And it came back again after hiding it 3 times

Showed up today on one of my computers

[Earth Bound Misfit]

11. Yup.

Version 3, Revision 11. Microsoft simply refuses to take no for an answer to the question:
Upgrade to Windoze 10 s'il vous plaît?