{"id":91533,"date":"2016-05-09T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=91533"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:08:37","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T11:08:37","slug":"windows-forced-upgrade-still-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/91533-windows-forced-upgrade-still-sucks","title":{"rendered":"Windows&#8217; forced upgrade still sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Windows 7 users are <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/microsoft-re-enables-kb3035583-on-windows-7-to-force-windows-10-upgrade-503702.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">reporting <\/a><\/strong>that the notorious update KB3035583 has been re-enabled on their computer without any notice.<\/p>\n<p>Update KB3035583 allows Windows 10 files to be downloaded in order to prepare the\u00a0upgrade to the new operating system.<\/p>\n<p>This was all done in the background, meaning users had no way of knowing that KB3035583 was making the changes until annoying pop-ups requested users to make the jump to Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Those who didn\u2019t want to perform the upgrade to Windows 10 could remove and hide the update or turn to third-party applications that blocked the new operating system completely in order to avoid any accidental installation &#8211; something that Microsoft acknowledges.<\/p>\n<p>With the update being re-enabled without any prior warning, users are now experiencing the exact same issues they faced nearly a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The cut-off date for Windows 7 and 8.1 users to make the free jump to Windows 10 is 29 July.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/broadband\/87989-crystal-webs-massive-gaming-plans.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Crystal Web\u2019s massive gaming plans<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/91479-intels-10-core-gaming-processor-benchmarks-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Intel\u2019s 10-core gaming processor benchmarks leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and gadget deals\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/xbox\/91399-awesome-gaming-and-gadget-deals-2.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and gadget deals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ufeffWindows 7 users are reporting that the notorious update KB3035583 has been re-enabled on their computer without any notice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":86632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[91,435,13009],"class_list":["post-91533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-features","tag-microsoft","tag-update","tag-windows-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91643,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91533\/revisions\/91643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}