Kirk Bubul wrote:

I just saw this article this morning. It says that if you click
on the "Check for Updates" In Windows Settings, you are asking
to be made into a Beta tester!

https://www.howtogeek.com/398226/now...osoft-smoking/

I think that this sucks.

If you were still using Windows 7, or still remember doing updates to
it, you would be used to Microsoft using their customers as beta
testers. Seems every month there is a "preview" update. Those who get
suckered into installing the preview updates are beta testers. The
update is in preview, just as it says, not released. At least in
Windows 7, I have a choice of what updates to install, and I always hide
the preview updates. Let someone else use their sole home PC as a beta
test machine.

Used to be you could choose to get just security updates, just feature
updates, or both. Before Microsoft released Windows 10, they started
rolling these together in the Windows 7 updates, so you couldn't get
just security updates and keep Microsoft from altering the feature set.

In Google Chrome, when you want to /check/ which version you have,
Chrome instead downloads the latest version. To Google, "checking" and
"updating" are the same. Instead of using the Options - Help - About
menu in Chrome, the trick to just check version is to go to
chrome://system. Mozilla was that way, too, for quite awhile but
listened to their customers and eventually let their users check the
version without forcing an update at them. Not much of a surprise that
Microsoft also thinks "checking" means "updating".

By the way, you haven't realized with Windows 10 that Microsoft has you
always a beta tester? You can disable all updating until you decide to
risk the state of your PC. Just disable the BITS and WU services, then
enable them *after* you have saved an image backup of the OS
partition(s). Who do you choose as the sysadmin of your computer: you
or Microsoft?