March 8th 2016 Security Update Release Summary

At least some of the grumbling may be attributable to a patch Microsoft pushed to a number of users this week as part of Patch Tuesday (KB3146449, which is buried inside Internet Explorer security patch KB3139929) which "adds functionality to Internet Explorer 11 on some computers that lets users learn about Windows 10 or start an upgrade to Windows 10." (This update seems only to create a "Get Windows 10" banner, and clicking the cancel button on it seems to remove it permanently, from what I can tell.)

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I haven't seen any banners to upgrade at all
I did notice one browser add-on for windows update
But that might be tied to auto updating ie11 more that to 10 ?
Could be either one :)

ThrashZone said:

I haven't seen any banners to upgrade at all
I did notice one browser add-on for windows update
But that might be tied to auto updating ie11 more that to 10 ?
Could be either one :)

You have Pro so you are not supposed to see the banner. See this thread from post #41 on, it explains why...

Beware KB3139929

Reading that article make me wonder what are some users doing who complain that "they got up this morning to find windows 10 on their system", do they just ignore the banner completely more than once and then believe it's someone else's fault.

Many years ago in the days of DOS I had a sales manager who managed to format his C: drive not his A: drive Floppy because he typed Format and not Format A: (a known issue at the time was that Format if not qualified would clear the active drive). this user managed this dispite windows throwing up multiple warnings of increasing severity until finally formatting his system and all his work. OK DOS warnings were not that impressive but todays warnings should tell any one looking at the screen to the fact that something is going on

Painter said:

ThrashZone said:

I haven't seen any banners to upgrade at all
I did notice one browser add-on for windows update
But that might be tied to auto updating ie11 more that to 10 ?
Could be either one :)

You have Pro so you are not supposed to see the banner. See this thread from post #41 on, it explains why...

Beware KB3139929

Hi,
Only 1 of my installs is pro
2 are home premiums all 3 have the update and none are showing any banners unless I go to a M$ website and they have always had a large banner on them and most will produce a popup that they recommend upgrading to win-10
That has been going on for a while pretty much every since win-10 was released :)

There could be a delay
But then again I rarely use ie11 anymore I use pale moon x64 now primarily
But on pro I do have it as default browser mostly for Origin gaming since I don't want to download Chrome
Firefox is a tad to bloated imho :/

Otherwise gaming wise I'll probably just stick with Steam gaming darn thing just works without messing with browsers and defaults

I would also add that I think the MS spokeswoman released the standard Myerson boilerplate as her response. It was not an answer in the slightest to the questions posed by The Register. It is unfortunate that MS customers are not afforded a direct response to the intent of the nested KBs. If MS is going to introduce advertising (in general) to W7, they should say so. If they are just using the code to push W10 until July 29, 2016, then OK, say so.