Posted on 05/23/2016 9:37:39 AM PDT by george76
Microsoft's new trick to coax users into upgrading to Windows 10 relies on changing behaviors the pop-up's instilled since December.
This morning, the unthinkable happened: My wife, an avowed PC user who long ago swore to never touch an Apple device, started shopping around for a Mac Mini. And it’s all thanks to Windows 10. Or rather, the nasty new way that Microsoft’s tricking Windows 7 and 8 users into automatically updating to Windows 10.
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The annoying “Get Windows 10” pop-up began using deceiving malware-like tactics months ago, but it recently received an overhaul that seems purposefully designed to confuse users who have been wearily slogging through the nagging for half a year now.
That nasty change trick resulted in my wife’s beloved Windows 7 PC being sneakily upgraded to Windows 10 this morning. Sure, she has 30 days to roll it back to Windows 7, but she feels so betrayed—like Microsoft forcibly removed her control over her own PC.
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here’s the icky part: The redesigned GWX pop-up now treats exiting the window as consent for the Windows 10 upgrade.
So after more than half a year of teaching people that the only way to say “no thanks” to Windows 10 is to exit the GWX application—and refusing to allow users to disable the pop-up in any obvious manner, so they had to press that X over and over again during those six months to the point that most people probably just click it without reading now—Microsoft just made it so that very behavior accepts the Windows 10 upgrade instead, rather than canceling it.
That’s gross.
(Excerpt) Read more at pcworld.com ...
I had Windows 7 and upgraded to 10 and I am not looking back.
I installed Linux and I got a popup saying my Windows 10 upgrade was ready. (Just kidding.) ;-)
I’ve installed Never 10.
I don’t see Microsoft nagware urging me to upgrade.
Not sure about every Freeper but as a person who is certified and works in the IT field I had no choice for I need to stay current and win 10 is fine the only issue I have so far is Microsoft Edge, for some reason it locks up every now and then and if I need to use Win 7 there is Hyper V which I have installed.
I walked away from my computer for a few minutes, and when I came back Windows 10 was being installed.
Using a Virtual Box clone of your proper setup of win7 allows a quick delete if win10 strikes and a reclone of the proper setup. 5 min., max.
It just did it to me.
Apparently it says, if you don’t want to upgrade click here, or something.
If one is not in front of the machine to see the alert, it thus upgrades without your consent.
Ping
Obama said, “If you like your Windows 7 operating system, you can keep your Windows 7 operating system.” ;-) Or was that Bill Gates?
I guess it didn't steal your office suite like it did mine. I had office 2013, home & school I think installed when I bought the computer. Now it demands a product code to unlock word and continue to use it. I can get my files but can't do anything with them. Same with excel.
It says "unlicensed product" at the top in a red bar. But I didn't steal from them; they stole from me!
MS needs to be hauled into court in a class-action suit.
“I walked away from my computer for a few minutes, and when I came back Windows 10 was being installed.”
Yup.
It just does it.
My wife had the same thing happen today as she was trying to get work done - see was PO’d at Microsoft - very deceptive.
I use a utility program named GWX Control Panel from the Ultimate Outsider website. It helps make sure that Windows does not get you into Windows 10 when you do not want to.
Users who depend upon DOS support should be careful about a Windows 10 upgrade. I found that it does not support redirection of output such as in “type file > outputfile”.
But I did find that Oracle’s VirtualBox lets me do many DOS functions under a Windows XP 32 bit virtual machine.
Call them.
OH FFS, the author should just stop whining and accept his new PC Overlords.......advertisements in the Start Menu and all!
“MS needs to be hauled into court in a class-action suit.”
I agree.
I turned off upgrades on both my Win 7 machines before I even connected them to the internet.
“Oh, but you might get malware or viruses from evil people out there!” Yeah, you mean like Microsoft?
We got two new laptops November a year ago with Win 8.1. We use Classic Shell to make 8.1 look like Win 7 & want to stay where we are. After the nagging to upgrade started, GWX Control Panel was installed on both laptops & so far, so good .... nagging stopped & downloaded files to convert to Win 10 on one laptop were removed.
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