Windows 10 nagware: You can't click X. Make a date OR ELSE
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/01/windows_10_nagware_no_way_out/
Microsoft's Windows 10 nagware campaign has entered a new
phase, with options to evade or escape an upgrade vanishing.
Recently, Microsoft's policy had been to throw up a dialogue
box asking you whether you wanted to install Windows 10. If
you clicked the red "X" to close the box - the
tried-and-tested way to make dialogue boxes disappear without
agreeing to do anything - Microsoft took that as permission
for the upgrade to go ahead. Now Microsoft is changing gears.
It has eliminated the option to reschedule a chosen upgrade
time once you've confirmed you want the update - while also
removing the red "X" close option from the screen, preventing
you from backing out after agreeing to the install.
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I'll be discussing this on radio tonight, and I'm going to call
it borderline criminal. At least.
--Lauren--
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