Slashdot Mirror
Even In Remotest Africa, Windows 10 Nagware Ruins Your Day (theregister.co.uk)
Iain Thomson, writing for The Register: When you're stuck in the middle of the Central African Republic (CAR) trying to protect the wildlife from armed poachers and the Lord's Resistance Army, then life's pretty tough. And now Microsoft has made it tougher with Windows 10 upgrades. The Chinko Project manages roughly 17,600 square kilometres (6,795 square miles) of rainforest and savannah in the east of the CAR, near the border with South Sudan. Money is tight, and so is internet bandwidth. So the staff was more than a little displeased when one of the donated laptops the team uses began upgrading to Windows 10 automatically, pulling in gigabytes of data over a radio link. And it's not just bandwidth bills they have to worry about. "If a forced upgrade happened and crashed our PCs while in the middle of coordinating rangers under fire from armed militarized poachers, blood could literally be on Microsoft's hands," said one member of the team.This is not a one-off case. We're reading about similar incidents everyday. Automatic updates, accidental automatic update, and the humongous data that these updates eat are ruining user experience for many. These are real issues. It's been roughly a year since Windows 10 has been officially available to consumers, and Microsoft is yet to address the issue.
Why won't somebody donate some consulting help for the people using inappropriate operating systems in life-critical conditions?
"If a forced upgrade happened and crashed our PCs while in the middle of coordinating rangers under fire from armed militarized poachers, blood could literally be on Microsoft's hands," said one member of the team.
Sorry, it's your fault, pal. Didn't you know that Windows was an ancient American word meaning "I can't configure Ubuntu"?
Ezekiel 23:20
Anyone who doesn't want Windows 10 could simply disable the "Windows Update" service, and simply wait for the Windows 10 free update period to expire. This tactic is well known for anyone who was bothered by the dialog boxes asking you to restart your computer every 10 minutes, or for power users that don't want 30+ documents to close overnight.
Meanwhile, still waiting for the Windows 10 update to appear on Windows Vista.
I'm guessing this concept is way too difficult for people like you, but you don't HAVE to read these stories and you don't HAVE to comment on them
But if you don't, the story will install itself permanently.
Ezekiel 23:20
Okay, we get it: Windows 10 updates are annoying and pushy, most users are too stupid to avoid them, and Microsoft doesn't give a crap how the users feel. Now can we PLEASE stop seeing the same goddamned story posted every goddamned day?
You're looking at it all wrong. The way Slashdot is battering us daily with "Windows 10 Upgrade Horror Stories" is exactly like the way the Get Windows 10 nagware update screens batter the Windows 7 owners. This is just a sympathy posting.
As a matter of fact, there's been so much battering of Windows 7 users that they've opened a shelter for them over on Second Street. When you walk in the door a counselor meets you to help you get over the abuse. But it turns out it's the Shuttleworth Shelter, and the counselors install Ubuntu and systemd on the poor peoples' machines! Oh, the irony!!
John
Of course the machine that goes ping will be fucked.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.