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.
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M$FT offers a 30 day “roll back” for Win 7 machines that get upgraded to Win 10. Most of time this is an alternative although I have heard of machines that failed the roll back.
If the machine was running Win 7 it still has a valid Win 7 license. If you do a clean install, that license can be used. Of course this erases the user’s data and applications. Hopefully you can backup the data. Applications will probably have to be reinstalled, another headache.
For 30 days.
If you have not contacted u-sofft by then to "verify" that it really, truly, and positively is a "valid" copy of the OS installed on that machine, it announces that it is invalid and refuses to operate.
So, you must contact u-sofft by phone and read off several numbers the machine will provide to them and they will read you back more numbers to input on the machine, or allow the machine to contact them directly instead to permit you to operate your own machine.
No thanks. No one needs to know what kind of machine I have and what programs I run on it.
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