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See that little red X up in the corner? You know the one that closes stuff?

If you dont want to install it, just click it.

#2 you failed to show the process in which that window even comes up. Where the user has to click the little popup. You can do, like I do with my Win7 work pC, and click the X to dismiss it as we arent migrating to it just yet.

But I’m the master of the dark art of PAYING ATTENTION AND USING SIMPLE LOGIC, which goes against the “M$ is oppressing me and making my hand click on things” narrative that you want everyone to think happens. Over 100 million times I’m sure.

“I have been working with Microsoft products since 1982 and Windows since 1990. I have no reason to make up an issue with Microsoft.”

Well you just did! First time for everything.

“Again, there is nothing on that screen to say there is any option but to install, and anyone thinking of hitting the out-of-the-way â€œxâ€ should have feared a default install behavior was a definite possibility.”

So again, you have to play the “people are idiots” card in order to prop up the narrative.

If this person actually knows anything about PCs, and has been using them for more than 5 minutes, they would have known that they can just close it. I did it. What’s stopping you?

And a person has even the extra step to open up a web browser, because this window does not disable anything on the PC, and do a simple search to get more info.

But that’s that silly old “personal responsibility” thing again. I forget this is Obama’s America where one just clicks stuff and then scream that they’ve been “tricked”.

On top of that, if you actually did hit “install now” you still have to go through multiple prompts before an actually installation takes place, including choosing to wipe your old installation or setting it up on a partition.

But I guess these “OMG Windows install automatically” people must be really good at random clicking to have pulled that off.

“When people buy a product from a responsible company, they expect responsible behavior. “

Still at no point is anything forced. Unless you now want to start counting all of the updates in Android, OSX, and iOS as “forced” as well. And those are far more automatic than what you have here.

“If you were run into by a wayward vehicle and injured, would it be your lack of personal responsibility that caused that? In â€œVanDeKoik-land,â€ it would be, because VanDeKoik was in his car, which allowed himself to be hit. The rest of us don’t see it that way.”

(That analogy doesn’t even make logical sense, but whatever...)

If a box appeared in front of me saying “hey, do you want to get hit by a car”, with X in the corner to get rid of the box and have nothing happen, or the ability to have to go through multiple prompts before the car hits, with any number of chances to cancel, and I just pressed “OK”, then YES it is MY FAULT.

But in the land of MS conspiracy theories, when people scream that they were “forced to get hit”, you are NOT ALLOWED to point out the bleeding obvious that they could have just closed the X in the corner and got rid of it AND AVOIDED GETTING HIT.