Windows 10 Forced Updates Will Soon End

Windows 10 forced updates will end soon, but not as quickly as we would all hope.
Over the past year, Microsoft has been increasingly heavy fisted with forcing Windows 10 updates on its Windows Home and Pro users.
The updates were never technically forced, but Microsoft rightly received a lot of bad publicity with the perception that they were. Their most recent antic left users bewildered when after clicking on the red X on the Windows 10 event scheduler, an action normally associated with closing or stopping a program, left the update still scheduled to run without the user’s knowledge. The only way to currently cancel the update is to carefully read the fine print in the event scheduler and follow the hyperlink maze to eventually decline Windows 10 - a process that was very clearly hidden several click layers deep in the event window.
Microsoft has announced that Windows 10 will no longer be free come July 29th. According to comments previously made by Microsoft, they are sticking hard and fast to this date. To Microsoft’s benefit, they did state that winding down the update process will take a month or two. It’s not an easy process to kill. What Microsoft hasn’t mentioned, though, is whether they will remove Windows 10 from the recommended update list.
Microsoft has remained rather quiet on that subject, even when directly asked. Of course, this poses other issues. What will happen after July 29th if a PC reboots to install Windows 10 during that wind-down phase? Is Microsoft going to demand that full payment for the update? Will the PC rollback to its previous OS – a feature that thus far has been riddled with bugs?
The answers are unclear. The one thing we can say for sure is that the Windows 10 forced updates will be coming to an end within the next couple of months. In the meantime, if you haven’t upgraded yet and don’t wish to, check out an app called Never 10.