Better check your Windows 7 PC for Get Windows 10 (GWX) traces

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Depending on from what angle you look at it, Microsoft's Get Windows 10 (GWX) campaign to get Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 devices to upgrade to Windows 10 was either a colossal disaster, a great success, or something in between.

Microsoft launched Windows 10, the last version of Windows ever, in 2015. Windows 10 was a new beginning for Microsoft; the company wanted customers to forget Windows 8 and move towards a Windows as a service model.

Microsoft launched the Get Windows 10 campaign to push Windows 10 and the 1 billion Windows 10 PCs by 2018 target.

What looked like a good deal on paper -- free upgrades to Windows 10 for devices running legitimate copies of Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 -- turned into a nightmare for customers who did not want to upgrade to Windows 10...

Read more: Better check your Windows 7 PC for Get Windows 10 (GWX) traces - gHacks Tech News

 

[townsbg]

Wow. That's low but should we expect anything else from M$?

 

[Brds7t7]

What's the point of that article? One PC with traces of running tasks which didn't get removed properly, clearly from some updates not being removed properly! It says in the article the updates had been installed on that PC since 2015, and the PC in question didn't even start any kind of update process to Windows 10 to begin with anyway, even with those tasks running?

I'm sure everyone is going to start panicking about another Windows 10 upgrade push. I'm not buying into that. I'm not an MS defender by any means with some of their latest shenanigans, but this seems more like a clickbait article to get people worked up.

Keep calm and carry on folks!