This time around in Microsoft's official list of updates, the patch is back to being Optional. Last month Microsoft changed the patch's rating from Optional to Important. Microsoft might get it right one of these days. KB 2952664 is the Windows 7 nagware patch that touts the Windows 10 upgrade. And two patches we've come to know and loathe top the list.
I have no idea what's up.Microsoft's patching problems this week aren't dire, they're just annoying. When I wrote about KB 2952664 last October, I noted that the KB article was up to revision 25, dated Oct. The revision dates on the KB articles don't instill any confidence. 5, 2016:Ī Microsoft spokesman says it isn't bringing back the "Get Windows 10" campaign, but our old nemesis KB 2952664 reappeared suddenly yesterday afternoon, and Windows users are livid - and scared.
GWX, of course, is Microsoft's malware-like "Get Windows 10" campaign that plagued Windows 7 and 8.1 users last year. There is no GWX or upgrade functionality contained in this update. The diagnostics evaluate the compatibility status of the Windows ecosystem, and help Microsoft to ensure application and device compatibility for all updates to Windows. This update performs diagnostics on the Windows systems that participate in the Windows Customer Experience Improvement Program. Microsoft's descriptions of the patches are quite bland: The last release of KB 2952664 went from Optional to Recommend in a week. But in the past, the Optional versions have been converted rapidly to Recommended, and thus installed on most machines. The patches appeared in the Automatic Update chute earlier todayas Optional, so they won't be installed unless you specifically check and install them. But both patches have been shown in the past to trigger a new Windows task called DoScheduledTelemetryRun.
We don't know what KB 2952664 (for Windows 7) and KB 2976978 (for Windows 8.1) actually do.
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