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 leave Win7 running 24/7 and never have these issues.
bkmk
You’re an arrogant IT type. Drones like you are a dime a dozen.
No problem with Windoze 10 unless you have QuickBooks 2013 or prior. A client got bushwhacked by the Micro$oft a-holes and had to upgrade is QB to be back in business. By the time he called me, he’d already installed the new QB and hadn’t realized he could uninstall it. Uninstall has had its fair share of disasters too. Sue the bastards!
You should just upgrade. Win10 is much better.
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