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Microsoft Prepares One Final, Full-Screen Get Windows 10 Nag (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader shares a ZDNet report:Those persistent Get Windows 10 pop-ups are going away soon, after Microsoft's free upgrade offer for Windows 10 expires on July 29. During those final days and hours, anyone still running Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 should brace for one last round of upgrade prods from Redmond, including a full-screen message, as the GWX program moves into its final phase. The details are in a new Knowledge Base article, "Windows 8.1 and Windows 7 SP1 end of free upgrade offer notification," which includes a screenshot of the message as well as some helpful hints on how to avoid seeing it more than once. Two noteworthy additions are visible in the lower left corner of that screen. Instead of merely dismissing the reminder, you can ask to be notified up to three more times or specify that you've made your mind up and you don't want any more notifications.
No means no.
Only tinfoil hat losers and businesses with enterprise licensing aren't upgrading to Windows 7. If you freaks and dorks weren't so paranoid, you wouldn't have these problems.
Some of us are neither of those and are sticking with Win7 because we've got software we paid good money for that won't work on Windows 10.
You can probably sue them. Don't know if you'd win.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
It's cheaper to support ONE version of the operating system than it is three.
Of course that explanation doesn't involve the amount of tin foil that many like to introduce into the situation, but it makes the most sense to me.
It's true that supporting one version is easier than > 1 version, but unless they think there's a possibility of a 100% conversion, then they're still going to have to support > 1 version of Windows for quite a while still.
The best explanation I've seen for the feverish push to convert users to Windows 10 is that some bonus(es) are tied to conversion rates.