The only behavior that could deny the Windows 10 upgrade before—closing the pop-up by pressing the X in the upper-right corner—now counts as consent for the upgrade, and worse, the upgrade installation can automatically begin even if you take no action whatsoever.

“I fear some segment of consumers will turn off Windows Update as a result,” Wes Miller, research vice president at Directions on Microsoft, told me. “Which is a very bad side effect.”

The consumer versions of Windows 10 don’t allow you to disable or manually install Windows Updates. If Microsoft pushes out a Windows 10 update, you will receive it eventually.

Chinese microblog site Weibo said users had now made more than 1.2 million posts complaining about Windows 10.

Microsoft had not respected the users' right to choose what they install on their computers. This was important, he said, because eventually Microsoft might profit from the "unwanted" upgrades.

As is often the case with preview software, users may run into issues. Microsoft cautions that Windows 10 build 14342 contains a bug that causes Edge to freeze if users turn off all of their browser extensions without uninstalling them, requiring them to kill the corresponding process in the Windows Task Manager.

Microsoft also made some improvements to the Bash command-line tool. The software giant caused a stir during this year's Build 2016 developer conference when it announced it was bringing the Unix shell and command language to the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update.

One email shown to the jury referred to Bornstein calling for any mention of the "J word" to be removed when Android was released in 2007, months after Apple had introduced the first iPhone. The list of words to be scrubbed also included "Oracle," "license" and "Sun," Oracle contended.

As a result, Oracle has been on a seven-year legal mission to reclaim damages -- in the realm of $9.3 billion -- it believes it is owed by Google.

At CoreOS Fest, Greg Kroah-Hartman, maintainer of the Linux kernel, declares that almost all bugs can be security issues.

From a security perspective, the rate of change and bug fixes are also noteworthy, as Kroah-Hartman emphatically said almost all bugs can be a security issue. Because he doesn't always know which bug could be a security vulnerability, he said all patches are important.

Windows Live Mail 2012 users are on notice: Switch to a modern email client or lose access to any Microsoft email accounts they have.

Ironically, Gmail users will be able to still access the Windows Live Mail 2012 client -- that service operates with the older protocols supported in Windows Live Mail.

Up until a month ago, admins could use Group Policy to shut off employees' access to Windows Store if they were running Windows 10 Pro. Controlling this access is a requirement for some businesses.

A Microsoft spokesperson confirmed the change, noting that businesses who need to shut off Store access have no recourse other than Windows 10 Enterprise.

Driving visibility and use of Windows Store has been one of Microsoft's goals with Windows 10.

Apple has finally informed its customers that it is no longer supporting QuickTime for Windows. Adobe, whose code is intertwined with QuickTime, is having to do a rapid reworking of its software to avoid putting users at risk.

Adobe's Windows customers now have little choice but to use QuickTime, despite it having two gaping holes in its security that allow full remote code execution if a malicious video is played.

The only charges Love is facing have been levied by the US Department of Justice. He has fought extradition for the past couple of years and the UK government has yet to make any progress on that front. However, UK law enforcement has stepped up its efforts to force Love to turn over passwords and keys.

"The problem is that the NCA are effectively arguing that any information that cannot be read and comprehended by the police has a presumption of guilt," Love told Ars in an e-mailed statement.

It must be pointed out again -- the NCA wants to force the uncharged Love to crack open his devices so it can find something to charge him with.

This version will be "a government-approved Windows 10 image, including Chinese capabilities such as government selected antivirus software," and be made available to "state-owned enterprise customers" including "government and critical infrastructure."

"Our first priority is to ensure that we provide our products with the Chinese government through the depth of cooperation developed out together. This product will be able to use existing applications and develop new applications in the future," he said.