The Next Windows 10 Shitfest

[owsf2000]

So a week or two ago people started complaining about how Microsoft changed a few things to trick even more people into installing an OS they didn't want. Namely they went against the very nature of convention and changed the functionality of the big X button in the corner - that up until now would cancel the attempted upgrade the way it should - to instead mean confirmation of the scheduled time for the upgrade. Normally when you click an X it doesn't mean "OK". But that's what Microsoft did.

And it pissed people off. So Microsoft did their half-step back apology and promised it would soon have an update to get rid of that deceitful behaviour.

And it's now out! What change did they make? They removed the X button entirely. There is now no way to cancel the attempted install scheduling, beyond making sure none of the Windows 10 nagware patches are on your computer. (There's a few programs to help with this apparently, but it's getting progressively clear you'll have to shut off Windows updates completely before too long.)

Comments

[dmjewelle.livejournal.com]

At first I thought, "Hey I'll take advantage of the free upgrade just before the deadline." Now I'm not even sure if I want it.

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

Hopefully we'd still be able to at least do a Ctrl+Alt+Delete -> End Task/End Process on the upgrade, and maybe manually delete it from the scheduled tasks. I don't know. With all the scuzzy, deceitful bullshit they've already pulled up to now, I wouldn't put it past them to redirect even that into "yay do the unwanted upgrade anyway!"

As always, the more they try to force this shit, the more I will actively oppose it, and then simply switch to Linux when that becomes no longer possible.

Fuck Micro$hit forever. That is all.