{"id":85212,"date":"2016-02-02T18:26:36","date_gmt":"2016-02-02T16:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=85212"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:05:20","slug":"microsoft-finds-a-way-to-install-windows-10-whether-you-like-it-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-finds-a-way-to-install-windows-10-whether-you-like-it-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft finds a way to install Windows 10 whether you like it or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Microsoft announced that<strong> Windows 10<\/strong> would be an &#8220;optional upgrade&#8221; on <strong>Windows Update<\/strong> for all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 OS users. However, that all changed this week when the company chose to rename the update as &#8220;Recommended Update.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This means that depending on how you have your Windows configured, it will end up installing Windows 10 automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Before the update changes your operating system, you will be asked if you want continue or not, so pay attention! It&#8217;s worth remembering that even if you do accidently perform the update, you have up to&nbsp;<strong><\/strong> 31 days to return to your previous version of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/microsoft-news.com\/microsoft-now-pushing-windows-10-as-a-recommended-update-to-windows-7-and-windows-8-1-users\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+msftnws+%28Microsoft+News%29\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Microsoft News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 would be an &#8220;optional upgrade&#8221; on Windows Update for all Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 OS users. However, that all changed this week when the company chose to rename the update as &#8220;Recommended Update.&#8221; This means that depending on how you have your Windows configured, it will &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/microsoft-finds-a-way-to-install-windows-10-whether-you-like-it-or-not\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Microsoft finds a way to install Windows 10 whether you like it or not&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2040,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2351],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-85212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionwindows-10"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2040"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329339,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85212\/revisions\/329339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85212"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=85212"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=85212"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=85212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}