{"id":290432,"date":"2018-12-30T07:39:13","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T05:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=290432"},"modified":"2018-12-30T07:40:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T05:40:58","slug":"microsoft-could-force-windows-10-update-onto-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/290432-microsoft-could-force-windows-10-update-onto-users.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft could force Windows 10 update onto users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has rolled out a silent update to a KB article &#8211; KB4023814 &#8211; that hints towards the latest Windows update being forced onto users, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/forced-windows-10-update-paranoia-returns-due-to-silent-microsoft-release-524386.shtml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>reports Softpedia News<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you&#8217;re currently running Windows 10 version 1507, version 1511, version 1607, version 1703 or version 1709, your computer detects the Windows 10 Update Assistant automatically,&#8221; says the KB4023814 article.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Then, you can expect to receive a notification that states that your device must have the latest security updates installed and then initiates an attempt to update your device.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft previously told users that it would not force updates onto them after doing this when Windows 10 was a free upgrade for older Windows operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>The latest Windows update, initially released in October, has been plagued with issues.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft paused the update after <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/278753-warning-dont-download-the-latest-windows-10-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>numerous reports<\/strong><\/a> of users losing personal files.<\/p>\n<p>After re-releasing the update, users reported <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/287064-windows-media-player-win32-apps-broken-by-windows-10-update.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>other issues<\/strong><\/a> in programs such as Windows Media Player and Win32 apps.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/290202-top-it-security-stories-in-2018.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Top IT security stories in 2018<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft previously told users that it would not force updates onto them again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":193098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[123,54295,56412,26970,46575],"class_list":["post-290432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-microsoft","tag-october-2018-update","tag-win32","tag-windows-10","tag-windows-media-player"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290438,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290432\/revisions\/290438"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}