So that lasted about a week?

[owsf2000]

Remember when Microsoft promised to reform their Windows 10 nagware? Yeah, that's kinda over already.

The latest update gives a big splash screen that "might" show up on your screen, reminding you about the soon-to-expire Windows 10 pseudo-free upgrade offer. It has a very email-spam sounding title saying "Sorry to interrupt, but this is important!"

The splash screen supposedly won't show itself if there are known compatibility problems with your computer or if you've been known to use a few of the programs that were designed specifically to stop Windows 10 nagware/upgrades. (For some reason I think this might be more because those programs are doing their job...)

Notably this upgrade, which is marked as a recommended update like all the other nagware, is already ignoring the promises Microsoft made just a week or so ago about their reforming intentions.

ie: There is no X in the top corner to dismiss the ugprade. There are only two obvious button choices in the lower right of the large dialogue box: "Upgrade Now" and "Remind me Later". To actually refuse the "offer", you have to click on one of the two light-blue-on-dark-blue-background links. "Do not notify me again". Right above that link on the lower LEFT of the box is a helpful "Remind me 3 more times." I'm pretty sure Upgrade Now is pre-selected. Or at least it is in microsoft's screenshot of the dialogue box.

I suppose in microsoft's defense, if they actually waited much longer before breaking their promise then the Windows 10 upgrade offer would already be over. ;)

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[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

It wouldn't surprise me if they came back at some point in a week or so and said that this new nagware update was just another "mistake" and that they'd meant to "fix" it or remove it from the update schedule before it went live but "forgot" about it or something along those lines.