Lawsuits During the one year period when Microsoft allowed a free upgrade from Windows 7 & 8 to Windows 10, Microsoft downloaded GBs of data onto user machines that were eligible for the update. This led to many angry Windows users filing lawsuits against the company. In 2016, a consumer rights body in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, took Microsoft to court over these downloads, claiming that the company would download up to 6 GB of files onto machines without user consent. After approximately a year of legal proceedings, the German wing of Microsoft has voluntarily agreed to not download files on to user machines without consent. The German rights group has welcomed this news, but also said that the delay in implementing the change was not acceptable. How it will now work Once the update is available, instead of a small prompt, users will now receive a full screen prompt that will give you 3 options viz. Restart Now, Pick a time and Snooze. Even if you do not do anything, your machine will not take any action automatically as is the case right now. On hitting Snooze, a user can delay the update for up to 3 days until 35 days have passed. Once those 35 days are up, users can delay the update even further by hitting Remind me Tomorrow. Therefore, a user can delay the update indefinitely. As we mentioned earlier, reports of this first broke out in May with Microsoft releasing a statement on their blog post that made it seem like Microsoft was listening to its users. An excerpt of the blog post is as below:
