A possible solution to the forced upgrade issue

T wrote:


I love Live CD for that reason.

Have you used "persistence" on Live USBs yet?
My tricked out Live USB is 16 GB with EXT4
and persistence.

-T

Just the one USB flash stick with Mint 17 on it.
With persistent store.

Paul

On Sat, 02 May 2015 14:18:40 -0700, T wrote:

On 05/02/2015 02:00 PM, John wrote:
www.microsoft.com/updates 127.0.0.1

Hi John,

I was unaware that you could add the "/updates" to
the line.

Checking the holy mother of all hosts blockers:

http://www.mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.txt

I do not see the practice, but it may be because they
want the whole site blocked.

Were you able to double check that this worked?

As I suspect you know, the hosts file is only checked during a *domain*
lookup. URI's (uniform resource identifier) are not considered.

Paul wrote:
. . .winston wrote:


As usual with any product, not everyone who use or purchase it will be
satisfied.

Especially if it causes an "outage" that wouldn't have
existed in a previous OS that was equipped with more control options.

I've already done the "satisfaction analysis" in advance.

I'm "not satisfied" and it hasn't shipped yet :-)

Paul


Hi, Paul and T
http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/KEY01

Windows Update info
Scroll forward to the 2 hour 19-20 minute mark...the next presenter,
Terry Myerson, top Windows exec, covers WU on Win10.

The meat of the matter starts around 2:27 where it covers Enterprise
(mission-critical devices) and consumers (Windows-as-a-service) and
delivery methods (distribution rings) - note the 2 slides regarding
Windows 10 Update Approach (slide 1 for Mission critical, End-user
devices, Consumers)applicable. End-User devices (falls under Windows
Update for Busines - slide 2, Consumer does not) - Windows Update for
Business (free and applicable to Win 10 Pro and Enterprise (allows
choice and control) but apparently not necessarily for Consumer (e.g.
Windows Core).

Based on the above, Pro, if available to the consumer market would seem
to be the sole choice for WU control.

What everyone should keep an eye out for is the qualifying o/s(Win7,
Win8.1 Core and Pro) and the available upgrade paths to Win 10..e.g.
will Pro 7/8.1 upgrade to Pro 10.

--
...winston
msft mvp consumer apps