14 DAY TRIAL // The “Get Windows 10” app that’s being used by Microsoft to push the new operating system to computers running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 has received another makeover, this time becoming even more aggressive than before.
Basically, if you’re running an older version of Windows, and you haven’t yet disabled the Get Windows 10 app, the prompt linked to the upgrade is now recommending you to install the new OS and even gives you two different options. But unfortunately, the “no” option is not there anymore.
The screenshot that you see here has been posted by PCWorld’s Brad Cachos, who himself received this upgrade prompt and said that although he didn’t press the small arrow on the right edge of the window, finding a way to reject the Windows 10 upgrade was more challenging than before.
This notification offered just two options: upgrade now or start the download and upgrade later. But what if you don’t want to upgrade? That doesn’t seem to be an option anymore, and everyone should get used to it, given the changes planned by Microsoft in early 2016.
Windows 10, a recommended update
Starting the first months of the next year, Microsoft will make Windows 10 a recommended update in Windows Update, so unless you specifically uncheck it in the list of items to be installed, you might end up with the new OS running on your PC.
This is part of Microsoft’s strategy to bring everyone on Windows 10, and that is why it’s clearly becoming a lot more difficult to block the upgrade to the new OS if you simply want to stick to your existing OS version.
Fortunately, there are ways to do that and get rid of the Get Windows 10 app. Thus, as soon as the upgrade is listed as a recommended download, you can simply uncheck the update and hide it completely, but there’s no doubt Microsoft will also look into alternative methods to continue pressing you to install it.
So sooner or later, Windows 10 might still land on your PC too, and it’s just a matter of time until this happens.