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Windows 10 Upgrade Activates By Clicking Red X Close Button In Prompt Message (bbc.co.uk)
Reader Raging Bool writes: In a move guaranteed to annoy many people, Microsoft has "jumped the shark" on encouraging users to upgrade to Windows 10. Microsoft has faced criticism for changing the pop-up box encouraging Windows users to upgrade to Windows 10. Clicking the red cross on the right hand corner of the pop-up box now activates the upgrade instead of closing the box. And this has caused confusion as typically clicking a red cross closes a pop-up notification. The upgrade could still be cancelled, when the scheduled time for it to begin appeared, Microsoft said
The change occurred because the update is now labelled "recommended" and many people have their PCs configured to accept recommended updates for security reasons. This means dismissing the box does not dismiss the update.Brad Chacos, senior editor at the PC World wrote about this incident over the weekend, and described it as a "nasty trick".
I can't think of anything the fruit peddler has done that comes close to the arrogance Microsoft is showing regarding anything about Windows 10.
It's enough to make a cynical paranoid think Microsoft is being paid to be this obnoxious and intrusive. Paid by whom? I'll leave that to the conspiracy theorists.
Win 10 sounds like a data-collecting piece of spyware, don't it?
Honestly, I can't 100% blame them. We witnessed how hard people hung onto XP. I still see companies with Windows Server 2003 in play (some of them still DEPLOY 2003). We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be (there are legitimate debates about win10 being better).
On the one hand Microsoft should be saying "screw them" and just move on. On the other, those people hanging on help to deteriorate the security posture of the rest of the internet and harm Microsofts reputation when they get hit with malware or other security issues.
Microsoft has an enormous user base. Trying to get that user base to move forward is painful. They're giving the OS out for free and people still push back.
Where MS has gone horribly wrong is in their invasion of privacy. But I have a very hard time taking these complaints seriously when in every case the people bitching are using Google for everything they can. Microsoft isn't doing anything with Win10 that Google isn't doing with Android/Chrome/Search and a plethora of web analytics. If Google was in control of Windows 10 you could bet the privacy intrusiveness would be 10 times worse than what Microsoft is doing.
Yes the upgrade tactics have been heavy handed. But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs. If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
I know we shouldn't feed the trolls ...
1. As opposed to the thousands of **new** bugs introduced??
You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. You doesn't have a clue how programming _actually_ works. _Why_ you think there is staging for deployment??
* In Development
* In Production
Because sometimes (critical) bugs get introduced and need to be sufficiently tested to see if they break anything BEFORE being deployed.
You're assuming that the patches are bug free. Oh gee, look, Microsoft pulls patch -- only a complete moron would blindly trusts Microshit.
2. Your opinion isn't doesn't mean jack shit. You have absolutely no right to tell other people what software they use (or don't use) on their computers. Get off your high horse already.
Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a clue because you're intellectually bankrupt.
We know there are large swathes of people that simply do not accept change, no matter how good it might be
"Good" is a subjective term, and I'm tired of people who think they know that Windows 7 is "better" (or how "good" it would be to upgrade to) for me.
The computer I've got runs the software I need. You may think it is "good" to be forced to upgrade just because something is new, but not all of us do.
But so has the push back, the FUD from sites like Slashdot and other supposed "tech" blogs.
It's "FUD" to say that Windows 10 doesn't run the one piece of software that I bought the last two computers with Windows 7 to run? Two computers that I bought only because XP doesn't support that same software.
If you have an Android phone and are bitching about Windows 10 you're a fucking hypocrite, full stop.
Your arrogance is amazing. I don't know how you come up with this ridiculous insult. I'm guessing that you think that everyone who doesn't like Windows 10 and how pushy MS is over installing it is automatically upgrading their Android version the second it comes out. Sorry to burst your nearsighted bubble, but that's nonsense. I stopped doing updates when 4.2 broke the external storage. My latest phone came with 5.0, and that's where it is staying.