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Microsoft Backtracks On 'Nasty Trick' Upgrade To Windows 10 (bbc.co.uk)
Reader Raging Bool writes: Days after angering many users with its so-called "nasty trick", Microsoft has reversed its crazy decision to infuriate users by upgrading them to Windows 10 automatically. Users were angry that clicking the cross to dismiss the box meant that they had agreed to the upgrade. Based on "customer feedback", Microsoft said it would add another notification that provided customers with "an additional opportunity for cancelling the upgrade". Microsoft told the BBC it had modified the pop-up as a result of criticism: "We've added another notification that confirms the time of the scheduled upgrade and provides the customer an additional opportunity for cancelling or rescheduling the upgrade. If the customer wishes to continue with their upgrade at the designated time, they can click 'OK' or close the notifications with no further action needed."
This is such a funny forum. On Tuesday there will be unanimous agreement that people cannot be trusted to apply updates and patches on their own and that everything should be done automatically. On Wednesday any increase in the automation of patching will be equated to the Holocaust. Same posters, the difference is purely on whether it might affect them personally. So many of you are perfectly happy to demand something of everyone else then shout and cry like toddlers when it is demanded of you in return.