Holy fuck are you serious?

It force-upgraded me and I declined the terms when it finally booted up, it rebooted and went back to W7 luckily working correctly but with un-closable popups everywhere demanding I either install W10 now or schedule an update within a week or so.

Microsoft has taken to installing malware on our machines using their update mechanism and signing keys; I'd delete their cert if it were feasible. I think the CFAA is broad enough to make this a felony if this has bricked machines/destroyed data (apparently it has), it certainly should be illegal. If I were running the machine in a medical system someone could have died.

If they changed the T&C, that ain't gonna go well for them.

(IE it probably won't be held to be consent)

Unless the auto-update terms in Windows Update expressly state that using it means you agree to any future, unknown terms that may apply to those updates, then agreeing to automatic updates would not be sufficient.

That is, unless the terms for Windows 10 are exactly the same as the version from which you are upgrading. That hardly seems likely, given that it is free and comes with new features, such as advertising, etc.

It still brings up a EULA....

In 2010 Microsoft's update of Security Essentials changed Windows update from manual to automatic. [1] With an installation base in the hundreds of millions, if even 1% of users didn't know about this and switched to manual update, then that's a hell of a lot of people who are affected.

1. http://www.infoworld.com/article/2627526/antimalware/warning...