Making It Easier to Upgrade to Windows 10

I'm annoyed that I had to spend quite some time tracking down and removing gwx.exe as well as reconfiguring the registry and Windows Update of our Windows 7 PCs so we wouldn't be surprised by Windows 10 or multiple 3 GB dents in our capped broadband.

I downloaded the Windows 10 ISO from Microsoft and tried it in a virtual machine. Meh. It's not so bad that I would rip it out of a new computer but it's not so good that I feel any urge at all to upgrade.

Now setting Windows Update to "Check for updates but let me choose whether to download and install them" on all my systems.

I strongly resent having this jammed down my throat. It took quite a bit of effort already to stop the background download of 3GB of W10. I simply can't believe that the user pressure on them to do this is very high or even exists at all.

I think their “aren't we great for doing you this favor?” attitude about the 31 day downgrade is really weird. Last I checked, disks don't have an expiration date that is shorter than milk, and most people appear to have more space than they know what to do with. Why, then, is there any period after which an archived OS should be forcibly removed? It should stay there as long as you want it to.

The older OS is paid for. It represents a big investment. And, there is no way that every possible problem will be magically found and resolved within 31 days. What if it takes you 2 months to boot up a game that is apparently broken on Windows 10, for example.