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And people question why I still use Windows Seven. Things like this happening where the consumer just has no options are inexcusable.
No, there's no way to refuse it completely, unless you use some sort of hack. So you either let MS do what they will, or you could use a solution like Windows Update MiniTool, which is maintained by an anonymous Russian known as Mr. X (seriously). I'm not saying there's anything necessarily wrong with it, but, you know, not the best two options in the world.
Don't forget some Win 10 games require a certain windows version, and wont work on the LTSB version. Microsoft loves to push this new way of an OS as a service nowadays.Yes, but only if you want to pay for the Enterprise Edition, which would give you much more control over updates anyway.
There are other ways…
Sure, and my conscience could probably just about survive such a thing, but it still puts us back in the realm of hacks from unknown sources just to make the OS behave itself.