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A comment on Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a security update.

Re:Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a... by spencera on Sunday March 13, 2016 @01:06PM (#11278382)
"I spent most of the night trying to replicate this behavior -- a blue banner on new tabs in IE11 with "Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10" -- and couldn't get it to trigger. If you can, I'd appreciate your shooting an email with a screenshot to [email protected]."
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Re:Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a... by krapp on Sunday March 13, 2016 @01:10PM (#11278403)
weird, I just opened IE up and got it immediately:

https://imgur.com/o69rzTG

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Re:Windows patch KB 3139929: When a security update is not a... by technion on Sunday March 13, 2016 @08:15PM (#11280141)
I get that same ad on a Windows 2012 R2 RDS server. It's interesting having a user in a remote desktop environment log a ticket about a required upgrade to Windows 10.
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