Drac - I meant they will most likely NOT stop nagging, and what Jenny said.

That DOES open an entirely different can of worms.

"I think people are talking about having Windows 10 install without peoples' permission after July 29 -- and being charged for that."

That's the impression I got too, Jenny100

All kidding aside, I agree with draclvr and Jenny100, that it is Just Talk and MS would not be foolish enough to try and charge people after the Due date. Although I am somewhat angry with MS approach regarding them trying to push W10 I am still enjoying the MS Operating System since Way back to MS 3 or was it 2.

So yes, they may still send out reminders on how wonderful it would be to have 10, they would never install it and charge you for it, I believe they have spent enough time in court being sued for other stuff in the past that they have learned there lesson. And as mentioned before when I eventually buy a new Lappy, I know I will enjoy W10 just as much as I have enjoyed ALL the other versions I have went through, and yes. that includes Vista once they patched it, it was A-Ok after that.

Personally, I no longer trust Microsoft to not do something really stupid! I totally understand the reason behind this push, but they went a bridge too far for me when they starting forcing the upgrades. But I still can't imagine they would do forced upgrades after July 29 and then try to charge people. But, who knows...

Just to clarify my posts, I don't expect they could charge people if they download 10 to your computer without your consent. I just think they will still be annoying with their nagging and updates.

No need to clarify your previous post oldbroad, we knew that, but You Sure Made it fun to talk about it, gave us, or at least Me, something to think about. But again, I really believe that MS would never go that far. And I would like to state again that I personally do not have in general anything against MS, I truly enjoyed the freedom that MS gives to a user to play around with it and that is what got MS into trouble as Evil Hackers got into the game of ruinning for everyone. A good friend of mine asked me when I converted his XP to Win7 he questioned why All of these security warnings, "This is ridiculous" and I answered that MS has to beef up their security system because of these hackers.
Note: This was Before the Existence of Win10 and I had told him from what I read and learned that MS will have No choice but to follow the route of Mac and Beef up their security system, and sure enough, along comes W10 and is in a small part a copy of Mac, more security and less choice in "Playing around withing the OS".
Why this came all about, too many users complaining about how easy it was to hack the MS OS, so something had to be done, eventually, just like Mac users, people will become used to it and will accept it as long as their machines become more reliable and harder for hackers to break in, and with the Popularity of Macs and increased sales, it will sometime in the near future attack Mac machines and give a break although a little break to MS owners.
There is my final 2 cents worth on this topic.

Starcom!

I do feel that some problems occur because some users just don't behave sensibly when using the internet

So far, since 1998, by using good and regularly updated anti-virus and firewall programmes and regularly scanning for malware etc etc etc AND not visiting any site willy, nilly without careful consideration, I have never been infected or hacked or anything else and am hoping that stays the case

[I am now touching all the wood within reach ]

Same here, Mad! Since 1999 for me... and also touching all the wood withing reach!

Like Mad and Draclvr with safe practice and a good A/V, I have had No Problems regarding Virus', Trojans, etc. since 1995, not to say I didn't get the occasional advertising Malware and non threatening Pups since then, but a quick clean made them disappear and I didn't even need to touch wood, as Mad so well said, as long as you use safe practice and surfing you should not encounter any problems, this is even when there were many Alarms that MS has been compromised and Oh, do this and that, never had any problems, just be a bit more careful during this time while MS sends out a patch.

Oops, I said previously that it would be my last post on this but I couldn't resist, please forgive me.