Windows 10 Reservation

[ignatzatsonic]

If all of the last few posts is true, this sounds like a bigger problem for those of us who build our own PCs. I just bought a Win8.1 retail key, I am thinking of just using that until I see where this is headed..............

Good idea, I think. You don't have to make a move for 13 months.

I'm going to build again circa November or December. I currently have a retail Win 7 license and don't want to get in the position where I can't easily go back to Win 7 if I don't like Win 10. All indications are that you can go back, but I'm unclear on the finer points of that---so I'm going to hide and watch through at least October while others do the experimenting.

 

[Shamrock]

Well, this sucks. I have a win7 pc with NO internet at all. My only internet is my phone. :/

 

[SparkyJJO]

Well, this sucks. I have a win7 pc with NO internet at all. My only internet is my phone. :/

Sometime in the next year take your PC over to a friend's house and borrow some bandwidth 😀

 

[sbpromania]

Why not? It happened with my Engenius router. I installed 1.131.x firmware some time ago, configured it to my liking, and I just discovered a new UI with a bunch of unwanted "Cloud" features installed, that weren't there before.

I went back and checked the release notes, and one of the changes was: "Add auto-upgrade feature". Guess I forgot to explicitly disable that?

How disconcerting.

And now MS wants to do the same thing to their users, with "forced updates". 🙁

I see your case, but a firmware update is way smaller than a full-blown Windows upgrade, and Microsoft won't risk doing this, they need credibility right now.