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Two weeks ago, Microsoft finally removed its scummy Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8.1 systems.
This came as a major relief to everyone who didn’t want to upgrade to the latest operating system, but who had been forced to weather a storm of increasingly sneaky tactics as the software giant pulled every trick possible to get as many users to upgrade before the free period expired.
With the nagware removed, users were no doubt hoping that would be the end of the matter, but it turns out that might not be the case after all.
As spotted by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the telemetry patches for Windows 7 (KB2952664) and Windows 8 (KB2952664) have been updated, and so will be offered to Windows 7 and 8 users once again. Those patches weren’t among the ones removed recently, but they are a prerequisite for the KB 3035583, the Get Windows 10 nagware.
http://betanews.com/2016/10/05/micro...ws-10-nagware/
This came as a major relief to everyone who didn’t want to upgrade to the latest operating system, but who had been forced to weather a storm of increasingly sneaky tactics as the software giant pulled every trick possible to get as many users to upgrade before the free period expired.
With the nagware removed, users were no doubt hoping that would be the end of the matter, but it turns out that might not be the case after all.
As spotted by Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld, the telemetry patches for Windows 7 (KB2952664) and Windows 8 (KB2952664) have been updated, and so will be offered to Windows 7 and 8 users once again. Those patches weren’t among the ones removed recently, but they are a prerequisite for the KB 3035583, the Get Windows 10 nagware.
http://betanews.com/2016/10/05/micro...ws-10-nagware/