Microsoft admitted! Secretly upgrade Win10 to Win7/8.1

Computer shop news: Windows 7/8.1 genuine users can upgrade Windows 10 for free, this is a good thing, but not everyone likes the new system, and Microsoft wants to encourage users to complete the promotion tasks. Upgrade, even at the expense of taking some special measures.

According to the latest report from Forbes, Microsoft not only sneaked the Windows 10 installation files to the hard disk of Windows 7/8.1 users without the user's permission, and even tried to do it in recent weeks. installation.

Microsoft has also confirmed that the system does automatically launch the installer without requiring a user license.

It is reported that some users will be prompted that the update is not completed and needs to be restarted, but once restarted, the Windows 10 installation will start automatically.

Even worse, some users will see a lot of Windows 10 installation attempts and failure tips in the Windows Update history, almost every day, but have not received any reminders.

For example, from August 10 to September 4, there were a total of 31 Windows 10 automatic installation failure records, and even appeared three times a day on August 17.

Although Microsoft acknowledged the existence of this situation, but the defense is caused by a bug in August, but Microsoft did not give specific patches, only gave An inexplicable error code 0x80240020.

Microsoft also said that the bug has been fixed and will not harass old users anymore, and even if it is upgraded, it will take 30 days to roll back.