Not to mention all the dark patterns around pushing the Win10 "upgrade" in the first place.
True. They pushed their luck, and got more than 400 million users onto a new OS. Not only that, it's a much better OS.
The only people who actually suffered were the OEMs, who didn't get to sell new PCs to all those people whose old PCs got a new lease of life.
Re:The woes of Windows 10
by Silhouette on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:43PM
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I'm pretty sure all the people who were complaining about being tricked into upgrading don't agree with you.
I'm pretty sure that was a small minority of more than 400 million users. It didn't happen on any of my Windows PCs, nor to anyone I know personally.
Re:The woes of Windows 10
by Silhouette on Friday February 03, 2017 @01:24AM
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Yes. (GWX = common shorthand for those "Get Windows 10" updates.)
That's true, but it's probably a lot harder when you've proven to be untrustworthy in what you include under "modernisation" or "updates".
Plenty of techie people warned that user-hostile behaviour like the GWX campaign or including non-security things in updates advertised as security patches would damage that trust and come back to bite them later. I think a lot of people didn't really believe that would be the case at the time, but as the article here notes, the adoption rates suggest otherwise.