Microsoft ditches forced Windows upgrades

Since the launch of Windows 10 in 2015, Microsoft has been pushing forced upgrade prompts to users running older versions of Windows — Windows XP, 7, 8 and 8.1. Microsoft believed that Windows 10 should be present on all supported computers in the world, which is why they stopped notifying and started pushing out forced upgrades to people. However, most people didn’t want Windows 10 on their old PCs that were good enough for Windows 7. Yet Microsoft kept rolling out the prompts and landed them in trouble.

The consumer protection watchdog in Germany has observed that Microsoft isn’t following a justifiable method to deliver upgrades and should stop its practices immediately. Microsoft eventually had to release an acknowledgement stating that they won’t prompt people to get the latest Windows updates as soon as they release a new one. This means that if you are on a Windows older than 10, then you can bid goodbye to those irritating upgrade prompts. However, it is not known whether Microsoft will follow the same practice for users outside Germany.