It turned out that Microsoft was charging advertisements for the next OS to Windows updates

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MicrosoftFormal announcement of next-generation OS Windows 10When upgrading from Windows 7 · Windows 8.1 · Windows Phone 8.1 to Windows 10Free for 1 year after releaseAnd we are focusing on maintaining existing Windows users somehow. The strategy for Microsoft's existing users seems to have begun, and it turned out that the update program that was distributed at the end of March 2015 included the function to display advertisements of Windows 10, and the downloader was included.

Due to the update of Windows Update Notification with Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1
http://support.microsoft.com/ja-jp/kb/3035583

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On the Microsoft support page, updates for Windows 7 and 8.1 delivered on March 27KB 3035583"You can use the additional features of Windows update notifications when new updates are available to users". If you look only at the explanatory note, you can judge that you will be able to use some function related to the notification of the update program, but it will not be conveyed to the user just by explaining what the added function is.


When Mice of IT related media actually installed the update program KB 3035583 and checked the details of the file, it found that a folder called GWX was added in System 32 of the system directory. In the folder called GWX, there is a folder called Download, four EXE files, XML files and so on. Looking at the file "GWXUXWorker.EXE" which is one of them, the explanation "Download Windows 10 "It was described as.


System32に追加されていた別のファイル「config.xml」を調べると「https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=526874」と「http://g.bing.com/GWX/」というURLが含まれていますが、2つともページはまだ公開されていない状態です。

In the file "Phases" in the same file, the explanation of how the Windows 10 downloader works as the release date of Windows 10 approaches is written, and when "Phase" is "None" All functions are disabled, but when "Phase" shifts to "AnticipationUX", action to display advertisement banner is built in. When "Phase" shifts to "Reservation", a page related to reservation of Windows 10 was added to the advertisement displayed at "AnticipationUX".


According to Mice who conducted the survey, Microsoft said that it is quite a rush to update Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 users to Windows 10. If you do not want to receive Windows 10 ads, it is better not to install KB 3035583.