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I visited my parents last weekend. My dad says his laptop automatically updated to Windows 10 a month ago and since then he was unable to use the internet (so basically the machine). He was PO'ed. He was tricked into installing it because Microsoft changed the behavior of the upgrade prompt. You can choose "Upgrade now" or "Not now, upgrade later". "Not now, upgrade later" use to behave like and mean "Ask me again later" Microsoft changed it to mean and behave like "Yes. Upgrade me, just not now... force it later". My mother was and has been able to avoid the forced upgrade by always clicking the "X" to close the prompt window and avoiding the dark pattern behavior.


Except that clicking the "x" is the same as clicking "Not now". The current pop-up is basically a notification that the upgrade has been scheduled and will happen. There's some other, smaller text in the window that would let her unschedule the update.


Same here. My mother called me in tears because she was tricked into installing Windows 10 on her PC and she can no longer sync photos from her camera.


English is not my first language, so I am curious. When you say 'in tears' are you using some metaphor or was she actually crying?


Usually in English it's not metaphorical.


Unless it's about laughing. Then it usually is metaphorical.


Actually crying.


They changed to behavior of clicking on the "x" - now it interprets that action as "yes, upgrade me".

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/229040-microsofts-latest-...




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