Contentious Windows 10 upgrade ads removed from Windows 7, 8.1
Found on Ars Technica on Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Broadly speaking, the Get Windows 10 program seems to have been successful. Windows 10's uptake was unprecedented for a Windows release, with more than 350 million people now using the operating system—a number that hasn't been updated for several weeks.
The removal of the software isn't going to undo the reputational harm that Microsoft deliberately caused itself with the aggressive upgrade tactics, but it should at least provide some reassurance that Windows 7 or 8.1 will never again try to push a major update.
Successful? If you want to called forced upgrades which are shoved down users' throats by malware- and scareware-like tactics successful, then yes.