Six old patches shipped again to Windows 7 PCs

Oct 9, 2015 21:03 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft has a goal of bringing Windows 10 on a total of 1 billion devices by 2017, and in order to achieve this, the company knows that most, if not all of those on Windows 7 need to upgrade as soon as possible.

So to do this, Microsoft offered some patches prompting users to upgrade, and it turns out that the company has recently re-released these to make sure that, even if Windows 7 consumers blocked them, they still show up on their computers.

Woody Leonhard of InfoWorld writes that a total of six patches have been re-released, and these include not only updates that are supposed to encourage the upgrade to Windows 10 but also bulletins that were previously used to enable data collection on Windows 7.

“Important” updates

Most of these updates are marked as “important” on Windows 7 PCs, and they are labeled as recommended by Windows Update, so users who might not know what they are all about could easily install them.

Here's the list of the updates re-released by Microsoft a few days ago:  

Update installs Get Windows 10 app in Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1 (KB3035583) Enables the Get Windows 10 app on Windows 7 and 8.1 systems.
Compatibility update for upgrading Windows 7 (KB2952664) Activates telemetry runs on Windows PCs.
Compatibility update for Windows 7 RTM (KB2977759) Diagnostics for Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program computers
Windows Update Client for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2: October 2015 (KB3083710) -
Compatibility update for Windows 8.1 and Windows 8 (KB2976978) Diagnostics for Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program
Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: October 2015 (KB3083711) -
As usual, if you don't want to upgrade to Windows 10 and if you don't want telemetry services enabled on your computer, you should avoid and hide these updates. Needless to say, Microsoft recommends everyone to install them, but it's up to you to decide whether you need them or not.