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Customers took a stand against Windows 10’s aggressive upgrades – and won
Topic Started: Dec 3 2016, 03:01 PM (565 Views)
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Jesse Worley threatened to sue Microsoft. He’s not the first to take on the Redmond company, but his move to take legal action had a purpose. He wanted Microsoft to acknowledge that aggressively pushing the Windows 10 update was a problem. Many customers weary of the Windows 8 disaster were unwilling to take the upgrade leap. Microsoft seemingly ignored their resistance.

Jesse Worley built a Windows 7 machine for his grandfather, who has Alzheimer’s Disease, in 2013. Because of this, Worley customized the machine to look like Windows XP, an operating system his grandfather still remembered well. Since Windows 7 will still receive patches until 2020, he wanted to keep the machine on Windows 7 until he got around to building a PC with Windows 10, using the fake Windows XP interface.

But thanks to Microsoft’s persistent Windows 10 upgrade program, Worley’s grandfather unknowingly initiated the Windows 10 upgrade by clicking the “X” to close the upgrade window – which, in this case, essentially gave permission by not explicating refuting the update. For the last 21 years, that “X” has been used to close programs in Window. Yet Microsoft chose to change that function. It didn’t turn out well.

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/customers-took-stand-against-windows-171522288.html
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