Windows 10 to download automatically on users’ computers

Many savvy Microsoft customers have already disabled recommended updates to avoid Windows 10.

These numbers are largely thanks to Microsoft’s aggressive strategy to see all users on legacy OSes upgrade to Windows 10, making the OS free, and prompting users on older OSes to download it as soon as possible through desktop popups. What this means is that users still have a choice in deciding whether or not they want to upgrade to Windows 10.

Now that Microsoft is forcibly downloading Windows 10 onto unsuspecting Windows 7 and 8.1 users’ PCs there’s going to be a lot of unhappy customers faced with a new OS they never asked for nor wanted. Depending upon your Windows Update settings, this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device.

Last month, Microsoft announced that more than 200 million active computers were running Windows 10 six months after its launch in July.

The increase in the share of the market of Windows 10 shows that the mainstream market is finally getting itself acquainted with the new software.

Industry analysts predict that Windows 10 will begin to make a bigger push forward this year, despite PC sales slump, as corporations begin to upgrade their Windows 7 PCs. In doing so, those who have set their machine to automatically get important updates will get Windows 10, too. And as always, you can always roll back to your previous Windows version (during the first month or so) if you’re not satisfied with the upgrade.

StatCounter reveals that, in January 2016, Windows 10 was powering no less than 17.86 percent of the computers used by Europeans while Windows 7 remained the leader with 42.58 percent.

Although the Windows 10 upgrade will still appear in Windows Update on Windows 7 or 8.1 it will not automatically install with this setting turned off.

The company aims to have Windows 10 installed on a billion devices within the next three years, Myerson said at the company’s annual Build conference in San Francisco in April.