Microsoft made good Monday on its promise to give Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users a shove toward Windows 10.
The shove arrived in the form of Windows 10's shift from an "optional" upgrade to a "recommended" upgrade.
Microsoft's move comes as the Windows 10 operating system
finally passed Windows XP and Windows 8.1 last month in terms of market share. Windows 10, which was released six months ago, now accounts for 11.9 percent of the desktop OS market worldwide. However, Windows 10 still lags far behind Windows 7, which controls 52.5 percent of the market.
The shift to "recommended" upgrade is designed to spur more downloads.
People with automatic updates enabled
might now see the Windows 10 upgrade kick in on its own. But they won't fully move to Windows 10 unless they specifically choose it. If people do move, intentionally or inadvertently, to Windows 10 and are unhappy with it, they have 31 days to roll back to their previous Windows versions.
