Microsoft today released a new update for Windows 7 and 8.1 PCs, which finally removes the Get Windows 10 (GWX) app.
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Mary Jo Foley of ZDNet.com first reported on the removal of the pitches yesterday.
It makes sense to remove those updates from devices running Windows 7 or 8 as they serve no objective anymore.
This update removes the Get Windows 10 app and other software related to the Windows 10 free upgrade offer that expired on July 29, 2016.
Data provided by Context, which uses information collected from European distributors, indicates that Windows 10 is growing on the Old Continent and it’s already more successful than its predecessors – and we all know that this is quite a huge achievement given that Microsoft’s priority was to upgrade Windows 7 users before EOS is reached in January 2020.
Microsoft only stepped back from the practice after a flood of complaints, and then only a month before the upgrade offer expired.
They will become available “within the next few days” but only for Windows 10 Anniversary Update customers. This guaranteed free upgrades to future revisions of Windows 10 throughout the life of the device.
At that point, if you want to try nightly or beta builds, you’ll want to download them from the Kodi website, where you’ll also still find download links for Kodi for Max, Linux, Android, and other platforms.
Even so, Mayfield outlined the steps necessary to remove his GWX Control Panel from a PC. It is unclear whether the update will also clean up any files left behind by the Get Windows 10 application on the system.
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This story, “Microsoft scrubs Windows 7 PCs of upgrade nagware” was originally published by Computerworld.
