Goddamn Microsoft.

Last week, I decided to let the ham shack computer upgrade to Windows 10, so I filled out the little reservation thing for that and forgot about it because I figured it would be weeks before it got pushed to that machine.

This morning, I got up and looked at my work machine — which rebooted itself last night for MS updates — and found out that the Windows 10 upgrade had failed.

Excuse me?  I very specifically DON’T want my work machine to upgrade to Windows 10.  And a quick look at the shack machine showed no similar attempt to upgrade.

I don’t know how it’s possible for that to happen.  I mean, I did not fill out the reservation form for the work machine, and yet, it tried to download and install Windows 10 overnight anyway.

So fuck ’em — I deleted that fucking KB3035583 Get Windows 10 app that appeared several months ago, and set Windows Update so it would not download it again.  You can see how to do that here.  The annoying thing is that you have to search on the KB number, because it shows up in Windows Update somewhat disingenuously as “Update for Microsoft Windows (KB3035583)”.

So far I’ve done this on four machines, with one more to go.