From DailyTech: In perhaps its most self-beneficial and humorous "gitch" since it "accidentally" stopped offering European users their choice of browser with Windows 7 sales in Europe, Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has announced that another programming "mistake" resulted in some unwitting Windows 7 and 8.1 users automatically receiving the Windows 10 upate.
Windows 10, of course, launched on July 29 worldwide as a free upgrade for anyone with a Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 license. The purported mistake led to Windows 7/8/8.1 customers receiving this month a Windows Update that automatically checked the Windows 10 upgrade lurking in the "optional" upgrades section.
To uncheck users would need to explore their optional updates and specifically uncheck that package from being downloaded. Those who didn't may have found themselves in a strange and unexpected situation as suddenly even those who specifically declined to download the Windows 10 upgrade found their machine preparing to install it.
Of course, the only definitive result was that the update was received and readied for installation. Windows 10 requires a certain level of human invertention during installation so it was relatively straightforward for tech savvy users who found themselves unwittingly enrolled in the upgrade to bail on it. However, as Ars Technica's Peter Bright (who was among the first media sources to note the issue) and other sources note, less tech savvy users might believe that the upgrade to Windows 10 was mandatory and just click on through it.
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