Microsoft tweaks aggressive Windows 10 upgrade prompt

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Well well well, guess Microsoft finally got enough people to donkey punch 'em in the nuts (not to mention the lady who sued 'em for $10,000...) to make 'em change the prompt.

Microsoft tweaks aggressive Windows 10 upgrade prompt following complaints

Microsoft started aggressively pushing its Windows 10 upgrade notifications back in February. While more than 300 million machines are now running the OS, some people haven't been particularly happy with how they received the upgrade. Microsoft is paying out $10,000 to a woman in Seattle who claims that Windows 10 installed itself on her work computer without her permission.

Microsoft's initial upgrade prompts for Windows 10 were relatively clear, but in recent months the company tweaked its prompt so that if you simply dismissed it using the "Red X" the upgrade would schedule itself anyway. "Since we introduced a new upgrade experience for Windows 10, we've received feedback that some of our valued customers found it confusing," admits Windows chief Terry Myerson, in a statement to The Verge. "We've been working hard to incorporate their feedback and this week, we'll roll out a new upgrade experience with clear options to upgrade now, schedule a time, or decline the free offer."



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Microsoft has clearly learned that its ambition to have one billion machines running Windows 10 isn't worth losing the trust of its customers over. The new prompt includes the ability to "decline free offer," and the "Red X" at the top corner of the dialogue box will no longer initiate the upgrade. Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users have around a month left until Microsoft's free Windows 10 upgrade offer comes to an end. Microsoft is expected to charge $119 for an upgrade to Windows 10 from July 30th.
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"we've received feedback that some of our valued customers found it confusing"
See, people were just confused.
 
I wish I could say that all of the rest of the tech companies don't do similar things. I can't though. On the other hand, I still don't see why Msft thought this was a good idea when it was so obvious to many of us that it wasn't.
 
gee... and just a few weeks before they stop offering it. MS sucks a bag of *$@^s
 
Clicking 'decline free offer' doesnt make anything happen on my old notebook. The dreaded windows10 upgrade icon is still in my system tray, and no prompt or confirmation happens after declining the offer.
 
I'm waiting for the "dat is a nice little computer you hav der. Ve wudnt vant anyting bad to happen to it, mmm?" message.
 
murye said:
Clicking 'decline free offer' doesnt make anything happen on my old notebook. The dreaded windows10 upgrade icon is still in my system tray, and no prompt or confirmation happens after declining the offer.
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That's because the nag screen is stupid enough to keep on nagging even though you're running an incompatible system that refuses the upgrade if you try it. Happens on my virtual machine lol.
 
B00nie said:
That's because the nag screen is stupid enough to keep on nagging even though you're running an incompatible system that refuses the upgrade if you try it. Happens on my virtual machine lol.
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Ah. Is there a way to disable it all together?
 
viper_0307 said:
The full screen nagger now claims 350 million.
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Ran into this yesterday for the first time. Customer brought in system, turned it on, as soon as it hit desktop, BAM, full screen pester. Scared the crap out of me, I thought the system was going to shit. :eek:
 
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