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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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Madness takes its toll.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by stormreaver on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:34AM
Uhh you just run a simple tool like Never10 and call it a fucking day?
That you consider this kind of behavior in an operating system to be acceptable, and even normal, is disturbing. It is neither normal, nor acceptable. And yes, this is very much Microsoft's fault.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @03:54AM
You are aware that Never10 has only been available for a couple of weeks, yes? GWX Control Panel has been around a few weeks longer, but the point is, malware blockers for this particular series of unwanted software are relatively new. It's not inconceivable that the station's IT people haven't kept on top of the problem and recent solutions or had sufficient time to vet them.
This cannot be sufficiently emphasized. Microsoft's ongoing updating and re-enabling of the GWX malware where customers have found a way to disable it is reprehensible. Shoving it on to computers while hiding any option to dissent is just evil. Wasting bandwidth and disk storage pushing it onto systems on the slim chance a user might choose to accept the installation, or more likely, as has happened to too many people, in order to slip an installation acknowledgement past them, is despicable.
By rights, antivirus products -- Symantec, Trend Micro, ESET, AVG, Avira, etc. -- should detect and obliterate GWX as the malware it is. In my experience some of them are excessively zealous about blocking less-nefarious software (e.g. port scanners, key recovery tools, some hex editors); the least they could do is protect their customers against a legitimate PUP.
(Score: 1, Troll) by Hairyfeet on Sunday May 01 2016, @12:43AM
Do you say the same for Android? For Linux? Because OSes have been offering to upgrade you to the latest version for years, people are only flipping their shit here because they were trained to whip out their CC when it came to getting a new copy of Windows.
Now am I gonna use Windows 10? Nope because I don't like it, its got too damned much "cloud" shit baked in and until some pirate group releases a "gamer edition" with all that crap ripped out I'm not letting MSFT waste my bandwidth but its literally a single button to say "No I don't want this" in any PROFESSIONAL edition of Windows, which this dumbass SHOULD have had loaded in a business environment.
So quit trying to lay off shitty IT personnel on MSFT, the guy should have been doing his fucking job. I mean for fucks sake man, if his company is all running windows Pro its a single checkbox in Group Policy which will then filter down to all the boxes on the domain (he DID have them on a fricking domain...right?), this is the kind of shit a fricking 16 year old intern can do man, its all GUI. If he WAS stupid enough to go buy win Home boxes from Dell or Worst Buy then its his stupidity and he should have at least had the common fricking sense to go around with a flash stick, shouldn't he?
this is like saying Linux is shit because some company like Walmart buys a bunch of shit boxes that don't run worth a fuck and just slaps a distro on 'em...its not Linux' fault is it because its not being run properly? If you are using win Pro, which again is DESIGNED FOR BUSINESSES, this isn't an issue, its a checkbox, and its that way on Windows Home because you are dealing with the kind of users I deal with every day, the kind that think random texts saying "You won a walmart gift card, just give us your CC number" is legit so if you don't make a pop up the size of a billboard they will never even know it fricking exists.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.