Microsoft Steps Back from the Cliff on Windows 10 Upgrades

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    Microsoft Steps Back from the Cliff on Windows 10 Upgrades


    Posted: 28 Jun 2016
    After months of mounting criticism, and just one month from the end of the free Windows 10 upgrade, Microsoft has finally seen the light: It will stop deliberately confusing and deceiving customers with the Windows 10 upgrade offer.

    “We started our journey with Windows 10 with a clear goal to move people from needing Windows to choosing Windows to loving Windows,” Microsoft executive vice president Terry Myerson explains in a prepared statement.. “Towards this goal, this week we’ll launch a new upgrade experience for millions of PCs around the world. The new experience has clearer options to upgrade now, choose a time, or decline the free offer. If the red-x is selected on this new dialog, it will dismiss the dialog box and we will notify the device again in a few days. We continue to recommend all of our customers upgrade to Windows 10 before the free upgrade offer expires on July 29. Thousands of engineers have been working on making Windows 10 the most secure version of Windows, helping to protect people from viruses, phishing, identity theft and more. We’d like our customers to upgrade and improve their experience with Windows and Microsoft.”

    So this is good news, obviously. But you’ll have to excuse me for being a bit underwhelmed by this change, given the late timing and, sadly, Microsoft’s history of behavior so far. As you must know, I’ve been extremely vocal about the firm’s ongoing deceptive Windows 10 upgrade practices. Practices which reached an incredible and inexcusable apex in May when Microsoft silently changed the Windows 10 upgrade advertisement to trigger the upgrade if the user closed the window...


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    Brink's Avatar Posted By: Brink
    28 Jun 2016



  1. Posts : 26,863
    Windows 11 Pro
       #1

    As it should have been all along.
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  2. Posts : 225
    Microsoft Windows 10 Professional 64-bit
       #2

    Kinda sad it took them this long to figure it out.
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  3. Posts : 20,583
    Win-7-Pro64bit 7-H-Prem-64bit
       #3
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  4. Posts : 4,049
    W7 Ultimate SP1, LM19.2 MATE, W10 Home 1703, W10 Pro 1703 VM, #All 64 bit
       #4

    Belatedly


    ThrashZone said:
    It's a pity MS didn't do the "right thing" from the very start.


    W10 is going to have tainted reputation for many years now, as a result of all of the dubious decisions and contradictory statements that MS made.

    Just like with the "W8 Series", MS fought "tooth and nail" against the wishes of the end user (and the free advice provided by testers).

    Worse, they used a range of dodgy tactics to trick users into doing what MS wanted, as opposed to what the user may have wanted.
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  5. Posts : 20,583
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       #5

    Yep just getting 8.1 from the store recently was annoying too
    Micro.... was kind enough to change my update setting in win-8 to include all of the win-10 upgrade updates too
    If I had not wanted all of that stuff it would been a tad annoying
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  6. Posts : 1,797
    Win 7 Ultimate, Win 8.1 Pro, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon (All 64-Bit)
       #6

    Seriously with one month left? Now they make it sound like they're doing people a favour?
    Should have done this 11 months ago!
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  7. Posts : 25,847
    Windows 10 Pro. 64/ version 1709 Windows 7 Pro/64
       #7

    I'm thinking because of this

    Woman sues Microsoft over her forced Windows 10 upgrade and wins


    Microsoft is trying to stay out of a Class Action Lawsuit.

    **After stabbing the public in the back and then treating their wounds with a band aid does not make a good company.**

    Microsoft has throwed away the trust that many had for decades about the company called Microsoft.


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  8. Posts : 1,797
    Win 7 Ultimate, Win 8.1 Pro, Linux Mint 19 Cinnamon (All 64-Bit)
       #8

    Agreed LB!
    There is no way MS has just done this out of the goodness of their hearts.

    If they had added a "Remind me in x months" or "decline this offer" option from day one, then they wouldn't have annoyed so many people the way they have.

    Too little, too late!
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  9. Posts : 20,583
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       #9

    If anything the door is wide open for a class action now
    A case is already ruled on :)

    I'm waiting to see the lawyers commercials to start showing up on t.v.
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