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No description of the recent history of Windows, however brief, can gloss over the fear and loathing that Microsoft induced with its Get Windows 10, or GWX, campaign.

The campaign started shortly after the RTM release in July 2015, with a little-noticed program known as KB 3035583. In October 2015, Microsoft started force-updating Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 computers to Windows 10, without the owners’ knowledge or consent. A loud scream arose, and, a week after the forced upgrades started, they suddenly stopped. But the GWX campaign continued, showing increasingly persistent ads for Windows 10, all the symptoms of nagware, and even malware. Microsoft proved that it could reach into your Windows 7 machine and start the upgrade to Windows 10, whether you wanted it or not.

The resultant clamor — from an unexpected appearance of a Windows 10 upgrade notification on a weather forecaster’s live news show, to Windows experts fretting over their relatives and friends, to more than 1 million posts on a Chinese blog — should have convinced Microsoft to back off. It didn’t. If you bump into people who don’t trust Windows or Microsoft, they have a good reason.