14 DAY TRIAL // Time is running out for Windows 7 and 8.1 users who want to upgrade to Windows 10 without paying a single cent, but there are reports that customers who aren’t actually willing to make the switch to the new OS are more or less forced through all kinds of tactics to do it.
It’s not a secret that some Windows PCs have been updated to Windows 10 without users’ consent, but in the last few weeks, Microsoft has actually changed the behavior of the Get Windows 10 app to schedule the upgrade to the OS.
And what’s worse is that unless users specifically launch the Get Windows 10 app, they don’t know that the upgrade is scheduled to begin at a certain date, so they could end up one day with their PCs installing the new OS without even wanting it.
More recently, we’ve seen reports that clicking the X button in the scheduled upgrade window no longer serves as a cancel button, so if you do this, you kind of acknowledge that Windows 10 will install at the displayed date and nothing more.
Same behavior since forever
But in a statement offered recently, Microsoft says that it hasn’t actually changed this behavior and that not only has the scheduled notification been there for months, but the X button has also had the same purpose since the introduction of this option in the Get Windows 10 app.
“Your upgrade is scheduled’ notification is nothing new (including the ability to just ‘X-out’ of the notification with no further action needed to schedule your upgrade) - it’s been part of the notification UI for months,” the company is quoted as saying by The Register.
So there you go, there’s nothing wrong with the Get Windows 10 app, and if you spot a scheduled upgrade to Windows 10 on your PC, you’d better stop searching for a way to cancel it. The best way to refuse the upgrade and return to your OS version is to click “decline” in the terms of services dialog when the Windows 10 installer launches.