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 ...
The closest analogy I see for it is 'abused spouse syndrome'. I've been seeing this for years and years. Still don't understand it.
bring
No, date is the right description. You did agree to go out with them by purchasing MS in the first place.
happened to me Sat, was away from my computer for 2 hours, came back & it was copying files to 10, reverted back to 7 & now it says not authentic, cant stop the auto updates, turn them off, restart the computer and they immediately check for updates.
I’m in for a class action lawsuit!
My Malwarebytes, Spybot, and AVG seem to take care of the malware just fine
Tech bookmark. Thanks for the link to Never 10.
Me, too! I went to bed a couple of nights ago; and my
computer had decided on its own to install Windows 10.
I had NOT clicked ANYTHING that requested Windows 10.
It ran & fiddled around all that night & finally
finished next morning. Somehow Fang got it fixed. I
could see no way to either stop it or get it to backtrack
or cease & desist.
chortle
It didn’t deceive me, it just did it! One day I went in there and it said “ Welcome to Windows 10” aaaccckkk took me a half an hour to get to what I needed initially, now that I’ve found my faves I’m ok. I’m waiting for when I want something new!
Same here... My wife wants me to get a Mac.
tx fer the post guy! [gwx control panel installed now...]
We aims to please.
Hey folks...go to GRC.com....Gibson Research and download/install Never10 from Steve Gibson. It only takes a few seconds. That is, if you like your Windows 7 the way it is.
Was required to use MS by my employer, while working a full-time telecommuting job, actually. Otherwise I’m a Linux user.
Microsoft’s economic future depends on the “adoption rate” of its latest crapware.
Tricking users into upgrading shows just how desperate and what Evil bastards they are. They don’t care. The only thing they care about are the ‘adoption rate’ numbers - something they can bring to the board. Microsoft are bastards; they really suck, but as long as consumers buy their stuff and put up with tricks like this...
My mid-eighties mother, bless her heart, had enough sense to leave that annoying trickware crap alone and thus avoid the pitfall.
And upgrading and then downgrading will leave your system a mess.
Linux: FREE, fast, secure.
Beauty!
microsoft’s RETROACTIVE attempt at “security.”
Total tossers and losers.
Intellectually ridiculous, comparing this to rape.
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What is the problem with windows 10?
windows 10 is great if you have the balls to accept the present
OK genius, let's talk genitalia when you're working on deadline and W10 forces an update.
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