Options for controlling update in Windows 10

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Susan Bradley has an important analysis of how to stop the forced updates in Windows 10. The news isn’t particularly good, but it isn’t dire. Windows
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So Windows 10 isn’t free after all.
To control updates (and privacy) you have to have Windows 10 Pro, which requires $$$.

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Dear Woody
See Ed Bott attacking you
As a fellow Journalist just let him know a windows 10 update had shutdown the audio on my computer and defaulted it to the speaker jack. In return got a [edited] reply from this [edited].
I have never had a windows update do something like this
cheers
claudette

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Hmmm, isn’t that called “bait and switch”?

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The best ways wo avoid forced Windows 10 updates may be switch to Apple or Linux.

I’m mainly set up ith Win 7’s right now and seriuosly checking both alternatives. I figure I might have till 2020 to come up with an alternative to Microsoft.

Any suggestions of other possibly viable options to leave the Microsoft dictatorship will be cheerfully awaited.

I believe I have time to do this carefully and a little help is always nice.

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My best suggestion is wait. By 2020 there will be options that we can’t even imagine at this point.

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