Microsoft will no longer force users to update Windows

After Windows 10 appeared, users of older versions of the system began to notice that their computers automatically downloaded huge files to upgrade to Windows 10 without any questions or notifications. Then they showed vague and confusing messages, which led many users to start upgrading to Windows 10 without realizing it. Microsoft subsequently apologized for having gone too far in its upgrade strategy.

Representatives of the company said they had "learned a lot" after all the complaints had been filed. The next lawsuit filed by the consumer protection group has forced Microsoft Germany to promise that it will never initiate downloading files to upgrade the operating system in the background without informing users. 

The statement of the company is welcomed as a "success for consumer rights".

KB4012218 and KB4012219 block updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 running on a PC with the latest generations of processors

Recently appeared information that Microsoft will not offer updates for Windows 7 and 8.1, if you work on computer systems using the latest generation of processors from Intel and AMD. It seems that blocking updates already begun. KB4012218 and KB4012219 already uploaded to Microsoft Update Catalog and to each patch offers an impressive list of changes and information on the new policy at Microsoft. This documentation says that new patches are designed to detect generation of processors used when you proceed to download other updates.

Microsoft has long said that processors Intel Kaby Lake and the latest AMD Ryzen will be maintained only by the operating system Windows 10. The first such message appear even in the month of January 2016, when the head of the Windows division, Terry Myerson said that only Windows 10 It has the necessary functionality to be able to reveal all the hardware capabilities of the new processors. KB4012218 and KB4012219 will begin to spread among users with the following vtornichni patches, due out on April 11 this year.

Microsoft is once again dropped to install updates for telemetry KB2952664 and KB2976978

Despite the cancellation of the secondary patches in February, Microsoft ceased altogether to offer updates. This week, the software giant has released updates to install office suite Office 2013 and 2016. They left a total of 17 trotters, but with them, Microsoft re-released for installing both well known in the package related to the collection of telemetry data from operating systems Windows 7 and 8.1. The software giant introduced five updates for Office 2013, which introduced amendments to OneDrive, Project and Visio. In turn, Office 2016 get additional updates for Access, OneDrive for Business, PowerPoint, Project, Publisher and Visio - 12 in total. Along with all that Microsoft is once again offer updates KB2952664 and KB2976978, respectively for operating systems Windows 7 and 8.1. They appeared for the first time since the time when he worked annoying app Get Windows 10 (GWX) update to OS Windows 10. But now Microsoft claims that this time they are not associated with this application. KB pages describing these show date March 7, and Help information is that they are available only to participants in the program Windows Consumer Experience Improvement monitor and compatibility of applications and devices.

Changed minimum system requirements for Windows 10

Microsoft is once again review the minimum system requirements for installing the new operating system Windows 10. This time the changes affected RAM. Initially, the software giant announced that for optimum performance on 32-bit operating system required a minimum of 1 GB of RAM and at least 2 GB of 64-bit Windows 10. But during the month of May 2016 minimum system requirements were changed and 2 GB of memory was the minimum necessary to memory, regardless of operating system version. Now the corporation returns the minimum system requirements of Windows 10 to their original state. That is, for 32-bit Windows 10 minimum RAM again is 1 GB. In the disk space will change - at least 16 GB of 32-bit version and not less than 20 GB for 64-bit operating system. The reasons for this change are not reported in msdn, but probably this is related to the optimization of the operating system itself in upcoming changes to the interface and other factors. And not only. Perhaps Microsoft is aiming manufacturers of cheaper tablets to come back to models with 1 GB of RAM to work on Windows 10.