Posted on 06/28/2016 7:39:11 PM PDT by Utilizer
Microsoft has been forced to change the red "x" notification on its Windows 10 upgrade prompts after users reacted angrily to the misleading button.
Microsoft dispensed with the historical function of the red "x" in the upgrade prompts to instead use it as authorisation for the upgrade process; clicking the button meant users gave their consent for the upgrade to take place.
But backlash from users over the perceived trickery has pushed Microsoft to pledge to modify the button back to its original function.
Now, clicking the "x" will dismiss the upgrade prompt and won't initiate the Windows 10 download, Microsoft Windows and devices chief Terry Myerson said in a statement.
"Since we introduced a new upgrade experience for Windows 10, we've received feedback that some of our valued customers found it confusing," Myerson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at itnews.com.au ...
“Using default settings (the norm for most mainstream customers) gives Windows 10 an incredible amount of user data (anonymised though invaluable) and absolute control over updates and the installation of new features and services.”
Last week-end when I shut down my windows 10 computer, it prompted me, “Upgrade and shut down” or “Upgrade and restart.” Those were the only options offered. As usual I selected “Upgrade and shut down.”
The next morning it opened as usual but would not allow my wireless printer to connect. At one point the appearance of my desktop completely changed. 14 of 21 icons on the desktop disappeared. I restored to an earlier date, and they reappeared. I muddled around in the settings and found that windows had somehow, in their infinite wisdom, set my computer up to automatically accept updates from windows and updates from other computers that they thought would speed up my acquiring the updates.
I was able to turn off the capabilities that they had turned on in my computer. How frustrating. I spent an entire day tinkering with the computer to return it to its previous state. The printer still does not work wirelessly. I have had to connect it via cable.
Because Win10 reports every keystroke back to Redmond.
They stand to make a fortune selling your most intimate data to the highest bidder.
LOL, whomever is in charge of her network is incompetent. As an I.T. person of any flavor, she should be embarrassed to have allowed her company to have computers in a network which would allow this to happen in the first place. Patches should long have been centrally controlled. Normal user accounts, including IT users, shouldn't possess the Admin privilege required for the install to even take take place.
Epic Nerd Fail!
It was her personal computer at home.
These people are scum.
I'm really disappointed. I was hoping this was the introduction to a class action suit against MS.
I still have a Windows 8.1 which was turned into a brick when it upgraded to Win10.
Unfortunately, it is my newest desktop, and although I got it to boot, after a week trying, I have been unable to spend the time backing up all my data (or as much as I can) before attempting a clean Win10 install.
I haven't even thought about my workhorse programs that I must reload. That will be so much fun getting them to load and hoping they still work under the ever changing Win 10.
Sorry if I called it by the wrong name - I’m just a granny, small business owner and found life was easier to deal with pre-internet. I do know that the program removed all Windows files from my Windows 7 computers and we’re no longer having to deal with the threat of Windows 10.
FR techno experts help keep that part of my life saner!!!
I wouldnt tell a sole then. My 15 year upgraded her laptop and then reverted it back to 7. I finally gave in after a year and let it upgrade to 10. It runs faster and every thing is still working. Staying with it.
They think like date rapists. No means NO, you crooks.
Windows took over my wife’s computer a few weeks back. I make her back up everything, so I just erased the hard drive and reinstalled 7 and put everything back on it.
Loaded opensuse 13.2 on her computer so she can do her typing. She kept messing up with LibreOffice, so now I have her using Abiword.
99% of anything I do on a computer I can do on linux. Years ago I started with Mandrake, Red Hat, debian, and got some Suse 8 disks.
Been using Suse ever since. Sorry, I am old and used to KDE and think suse is the best when it comes to the KDE desktop.
I use windows for the family tree programs (they are just easier). But I disconnect from the internet whenever I am on windows. I did download windows 10 on one partition. It looks like a big advertising gimmick.
For what I use windows for, a ‘98 windows would do fine. Still mad that I couldn’t put Word Perfect 6 on XP. Did all my newletters on that.
Don’t need to be plugged in to the internet to play windows games on your computer, and she can play online games on linux.
I have little use for windows.
My computer is running slower than normal. Is it because I refused to download “10”?
Perhaps you could try what I have on the machines here: I dual-boot.
For pretty much everything, I run Linux since it is so stable and “just runs”. Especially for the internet, I only connect when I am running Linux, so the ‘doze partition never sees a connection and never attempts to “upgrade” anything.
Honestly, if it were not for some high-end programs that will only run on Windows (XP) I would do without it entirely, unfortunately, there are still some valued programs -and Computer Operated Machinery that are written for Windows, and Windows only, and will not operate under Wine as of yet. My CAD/CAM programs require Windows(tm) to run, so I can not get rid of it yet, but I never have a connection to the internet active when I am working in the ‘doze environment.
It has worked out quite well so far. :)
Sounds like you must needs do a complete reinstall by wiping your main HDD and then using the Win8.1 Install CD to start all over again, sorry to say.
Just bite the binky, and do the install, then follow the prompts to call the MS flunkies and repeat various strings of numbers and letters that you will have hopefully written down previously proving that your machine is indeed not a Pirate Machine (Arrrgh, matey!) and you can begin again with a completely blank slate.
Then, first thing, make a COMPLETE backup of your sytem! After that, you should be good to go.
As long as you do not connect to the internet while running Windows(tm), of course. :)
“We’re from the Microsoft Mandatory Upgrade Force. We’re here to help.”
-I mean,
“We’re from the government. We’re here to help.”
(Scary either way, ‘ay?)
Someone commented recently on another thread...
If you HAVE to have a computer to run GAMES for the vast majority of its useage, then you probably need microsoft for most of them.
For any other REAL useage of your computer, say for instance, for like some REAL number-crunching or design work, then you should have discovered by now that you should run a REAL Operating System to get the most bang for your buck. Why do you think the high-end Engineering and Design companies run on the ‘nix platform? Unix, BSD, Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu -they choose them over the ‘doze platform for some very good reasons.
Of course, if all you need to do is browse the web and send emails and pictures back and forth, then really -think about it- why do you feel the need to have some bloated OS taking up so much hard drive space and demanding so much memory for functions that can be easily done with a machine running only a browser and notepad function?
Win10 offers absolutely no advanced capabilities in that regard if you think about it. How “advanced” does your OS need to be to run a browser and deal with emails?
That is part of why MS gave 10 away free with a 30 day rollback limit...to try to encourage those people to jump ship to the new OS, theoretically reducing the pool of people who will need support on the older systems as they creep toward obsolescence.
“We’re from the Microsoft Mandatory Upgrade Force. We’re here to help.”
Microsoft is now as big and powerful as an arm of the federal government, and they’re beginning to act in the same despotic manner.
Maybe it’s time for some protest mobs to show up at their headquarters and burn their flag.
No, it’s because you refuse to become a Macophile!!! You hoser!
*laugh* (J/K) *grin*
WordPerfect! I forgot how much I miss that pgm!
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