You can upgrade to Windows 11 or Windows 10 from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 even now for free! Microsoft offers you a simple method to upgrade from the previous version ...

To completely stop or disable automatic Windows Updates in Windows 11/10, you will have to: Disable Windows Update & Windows Update Medic Services Change WU settings using the Group Policy Editor ...

which means it’ll download and install automatically on machines that have default update settings. This means many Windows 7 and Windows 8 users might soon find themselves running Windows 10 ...