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on Friday April 29 2016, @11:29PM
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.
El Reg reports
Microsoft's relentless Windows 10 nagware has interrupted a live TV weather forecast, urging meteorologist Metinka Slater to upgrade.
The operating system suddenly popped up a box on screen insisting the station's computer be upgraded to the latest version--while Slater was on air describing thunderstorms rolling through Iowa, USA.
The cyber-badgering blatted over her doppler weather radar, which was being broadcast on KCCI 8 News [April 27].
"Microsoft recommends upgrading to Windows 10. Gosh, what should I do?" Slater asked sarcastically.
So, do you know of a case of MSFT update pushiness that rivals this?
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If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
(Score: 2, Informative) by Blightbow on Saturday April 30 2016, @12:20AM
Also, this wasn't some random hidden feature of windows 10. It's been a feature of windows since at least Windows XP.
Wasn't the nagware rolled out in the August update? (i.e. this thing [infoworld.com])
(Score: 5, Informative) by wendo on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:06AM
Yes, and then the fix to turn it off was reset with the next update, then the next update after that stopped obeying the setting altogether, and so it's gone on, and on, and on.
The IT guy may very well have disabled the damn thing, then the next update re-enabled it etc etc. And these changes are baked into "critical" updates
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday April 30 2016, @07:16AM
Why is everyone acting like every random little TV station actually has an IT guy?
Like most small businesses, they are probably just barley holding their computers together, and if something goes belly up they throw a new laptop in, and the old one goes to the closet of failures and sits there till someone gives it to their kids. If the Station has any tech guys he's a video tech and uses off the shelf software and computers to edit news clips.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @08:30AM
This is the NBC affiliate for Des Moines.
The Des Moines metro area has a population over 600,000.
This isn't some go-fer's email machine.
It's the one that puts content on the air.
If I had equipment on which hundreds of thousands of people depended, I think I'd want to keep that in top condition.
Now, you may be right that these Windoze users just stack up the failures until the pile is big enough for somebody to become interested them.
For my part, I wonder just how loud the wake up gong has to be before places dump that company|OS--particularly now that it has become this intrusive.
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(Score: 1) by IndigoFreak on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:08AM
[quote]upgraded to the latest version[/quote]
Took that the wrong way. Thought it was telling her to update windows, as in bug fixes. Not that she was on Win 7/8 and to get Windows 10.
My fault there.
But my other point remains. IT should know of this and fix it. If it actually is impossible to banish, then they need to be looking into another OS. If their IT department never brought this up as a possibility to management, then the IT staff isn't doing their job. Finger may need to be pointed in other places however.