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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:19AM
In her old job, she used to stand up there waving her arms pretending there was a weather map in front of her, when it was really just a green screen.
But now, with the advances of technology...
She gets to do the same thing in front of a blue screen!
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday April 30 2016, @04:13AM
Forecast: Blue skies, er, screens! Of Death! Now with more Windows! 10 of them! Thank goodness the last Windoze I ran was Ninety-Five! I am still 85 releases ahead of everyone else!
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Saturday April 30 2016, @05:23AM
You know why msoft went straight from 8 to 10? Because 7 8 9.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek