Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, and Sven!
Mac -- Teh Older got a message on his computer offering to download Win 10 now or in 3 days. If you pick 3 days, it will download in 3 days -- no more choices. If you dismiss the dialog, you can put off the installation to a time of your choosing -- or not.
I read that closing the box, as many people have gotten used to doing for months, would be taken as giving permission. To cancel it there is a small line of text under the box with a link to change the date or cancel. When I clicked that I wanted to cancel it took me to another page that tried a hard sell. I had to again click cancel. I had disabled the annoying popup long ago so I only had the icon, and that was hidden. I would never have seen this if I had not read the article and gone in and clicked the icon.
Interesting. This is the piece I saw on Facebook about Win 10. I had shared it on my own timeline. This morning it was gone. I went to the WND site to get this. I don’t usually even read stuff from WND but this checked out for me. It just disappeared, including the comments and notifications of comments.
I think Windows 10 is great — if you understand and accept its wayward ways. But this forced updating is, in my opinion, the most customer-antagonistic act Microsoft has ever undertaken.
Even worse than Clippy, I guess. 😉
More seriously…that’s a profoundly shitty way to treat customers.
Sure Happy It’s Teh Penultimate Day Of The Work Week, GN!
Mac --
Unreal that MS would schedule you for an OS upgrade in such a dastardly and sneaky manner.
All your OS belongs to us.
Hi GN!
Sure Happy It’s Thursday, Gerbil Nation!
Good morning, Fatwa, and Sven!
Mac -- Teh Older got a message on his computer offering to download Win 10 now or in 3 days. If you pick 3 days, it will download in 3 days -- no more choices. If you dismiss the dialog, you can put off the installation to a time of your choosing -- or not.
I read that closing the box, as many people have gotten used to doing for months, would be taken as giving permission. To cancel it there is a small line of text under the box with a link to change the date or cancel. When I clicked that I wanted to cancel it took me to another page that tried a hard sell. I had to again click cancel. I had disabled the annoying popup long ago so I only had the icon, and that was hidden. I would never have seen this if I had not read the article and gone in and clicked the icon.
All of the easily seen choices were giving permission to install, later or now.
Interesting. This is the piece I saw on Facebook about Win 10. I had shared it on my own timeline. This morning it was gone. I went to the WND site to get this. I don’t usually even read stuff from WND but this checked out for me. It just disappeared, including the comments and notifications of comments.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/05/bill-gates-of-hell-windows-10-hijacks-computers/
Wow! I hope someone successfully hits Microsoft with a class-action lawsuit over this.
Hai, Sven, Paddy and Mac!
Woody Leonhard at InfoWorld had this (among other things) to say:
Even worse than Clippy, I guess. 😉
More seriously…that’s a profoundly shitty way to treat customers.