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  Thurrott: Deceptive upgrade tactics undermine Win10 RS Wood  <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-06-04 00:14 +0000

#11257 — Thurrott: Deceptive upgrade tactics undermine Win10

From the «the software equivalent of waterboarding» department:
Title: Paul Thurrott: Microsoft’s Upgrade Deceptions Are Undermining Windows 10
Author: John Gruber
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2016 21:42:00 -0400
Link: https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-10/67367/upgradegate-microsofts-upgrade-deceptions-undermining-windows-10

Paul Thurrott:

Last week, Microsoft silently changed Get Windows 10 yet again. And this
time, it has gone beyond the social engineering scheme that has been fooling
people into inadvertently upgrading to Windows 10 for months. This time, it
actually changed the behavior of the window that appears so that if you click
the “Close” window box, you are actually agreeing to the upgrade. Without you
knowing what just happened.

Previously, closing this window would correctly signal that you do not want
the upgrade. So Microsoft didn’t change the wording in the window. It didn’t
make an “Upgrade now” button bigger, or a non-existent “don’t ever upgrade”
button smaller. It pulled a switcheroonie. It’s like going out to your car in
the morning and discovering that the gas pedal now applies the brakes, while
the brake pedal washes the windshield. Have a fun commute!

Continuing decades-long proof that the grass is not always greener on the other
side of the fence.
★ [1]

Links:
[1]: http://daringfireball.net/linked/2016/06/01/thurrott-windows-10-updates (link)


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