Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windows 10 upgrade

Re:Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windo... by robertelder on Monday March 14, 2016 @08:07PM (#11286537)

It is just shocking to see people complaining of data loss, and other extreme inconveniences caused by this update, but then on the other hand people going so far as to flag this thread (see comments below), despite this having been experienced by thousands of people. Being skeptical makes sense, but flagging the thread? I don't see that kind of polar opposite reaction often on HN.

It can be relatively economic to pay people to post favourable comments if they already enjoy doing it anyway. I suspect that it happens more often than you think, and often takes the form of just paying people to hold biased opinions. It is not hard to imagine that if someone was holding onto a large amount of Microsoft stock, it would be easy to maintain cognitive dissonance.

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Re:Windows 7 computers are automatically starting the Windo... by LoSboccacc on Monday March 14, 2016 @10:44PM (#11287100)

> everyone disagreeing with me is a shill

Well you could just go see post history and call out the obvious one, letting downvotes take care of the rest.

Anyway I had win 10 preinstalled on a laptop and since the last patch craze my wifi stopped working reliably.

I think MS managed to bork something there independently from the os upgrade, but even more interestingly all other computers around here, same make same model, upgraded just fine, so I'd give some credit to the other voices until the actual technical issue is pinned down. At least for the driver issues, the sneaky os update is maddness.

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