Microsoft expanded a long-existing support document

Microsoft switched the automatically-offered Windows 10 upgrade to some "Recommended" download that in turn scheduled the upgrade process unless the consumer interfered.

"As we shared in October, Windows 10 is going to be offered as a 'Recommended' update for Windows 7 and 8.1 customers whose Windows Update settings are configured to simply accept 'Recommended' updates," a cheap office 2010 spokesman said Friday within an email reply to questions.

Those questions were spurred by reports from Computerworld readers, who said that they'd again been offered an upgrade after months of either ignoring the campaign or dodging the transmutation of the PCs from office 2013 professional or 8.1 to 10.

In Windows Update, a Recommended update is one that is automatically downloaded and installed -- no user assistance required -- on PCs whose owners have not changed the default behavior of the service.

Microsoft originally announced in October 2015 that it planned to use Windows Update, the operating system's default security maintenance service, to automatically send the upgrade to PCs.