Microsoft has started pushing Windows 10 harder than ever as the latest operating system is now a recommended update for your PC.

This means that the upgrade will begin installing automatically on some machines, those with 'install updates automatically' activated.

However, Microsoft has assured users that they can easily cancel the installation process and even scale back to their previous OS within a month if they do accept the download.

Microsoft did give users fair warning that Windows 10 would eventually become a recommended update, as ZDNet points out.

How to get Windows 10: A guide to downloading Microsoft's free update

"We are committed to making it easy for our Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 customers to upgrade to Windows 10," said Microsoft in a blog post

"We updated the upgrade experience today to help our customers, who previously reserved their upgrade, schedule a time for their upgrade to take place."

Windows 10, which has reached more than 200 million users since its launch last summer, is available as a free update for Windows 7 and 8 - as long as you accept the offer by July 29, 2016.