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Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by torgoguys on Friday May 27, 2016 @08:23AM (#11785503)
It's not just MS pushing new stuff on people without much warning. A similar thing happened to my mom with the iOS 6 => 7 update that overhauled the UI. People (understandably) freak when you move their cheese. Apple seems to have gotten more of a pass for it than Microsoft is here though.

If you read the actual dialog box, it reads fine. Really. It's not a trick. The big change is Windows 10 being classified as a "recommended" update. Turn off recommended updates (only take "critical" updates) if you don't want Microsoft changing functionality on your computer. It has been like that for a long time. This is a very extreme example of it though and MS knows that--that's why the box exists, I think--they don't "warn" you about other upcoming recommended updates. Yes, they could do more on that box to guide you towards cancelling the upgrade, but if they mean what they say that the update is "recommended," your dialogs should be guiding people towards getting it rather than away from it.

Again, the bigger thing to question here is the choice to make it "recommended," not the dialog box.

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Re:Microsoft won't back down from Windows 10 nagware 'trick' by tunap on Saturday May 28, 2016 @10:25AM (#11791753)
An as yet undetermined critical update just rechecked "recommended" for me yesterday when I specifically unchecked it before manually updating a fresh 7 install. Once the 1st round of 170 updates finished w/ a couple fails, I unintentionally/fortuitously clicked settings and saw the box checked. *This was updates before 3/27/2015, btw, I now need to vet the remaining ~170 of the 40 known/unwanted Win 10 malgrades.
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