If you use Windows 7/8 and don't want Windows 10, turn off recommended updates

I've not seen much about this:

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Early [this] year, we expect to be re-categorizing Windows 10 as a “Recommended Update”. Depending upon your Windows Update settings, this may cause the upgrade process to automatically initiate on your device.

So if you have your update settings to automatically install recommended updates rather than just critical ones, it will try to change your OS to 10. It won't automatically overwrite your current OS (gee, thanks, Microsoft), but this may still be more intrusion than you may like, and it will download the (apparently 3G) installer.

How to prevent it

Can I also note that any statement which includes multiple uses of the word "learnings" is one that rubs me up the wrong way?

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