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Windows 10 Nagware Interrupts Live TV Weather Forecast

posted by cmn32480 on Friday April 29 2016, @11:29PM   Printer-friendly
from the inconvenient-timing-for-a-new-os dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @09:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @09:53AM (#339423)

    Never 10 [grc.com] - A small free program that hooks the update config and can permanently disable the windows 10 upgrade / nagger.

    Many users of Windows 7 and 8.1 are happy with their current version of Windows, and have no wish to upgrade to Windows 10. There are many reasons for this, but among them is the fact that Windows 10 has become controversial due to Microsoft's evolution of their Windows operating system platform into a service which, among other things, aggressively monitors and reports on its users activities. This alone makes many users uncomfortable enough to cause them to choose to wait. In line with this, a few months into 2016, Windows 10 started displaying unsolicited advertisements on its users' desktops. Others dislike the changes Microsoft made by merging their failed “tiled” smartphone user-interface into the Windows UI. And, finally, some object to being force-fed whatever Microsoft wants and simply wish to choose for themselves.

    In July of 2015, responding to the significant user backlash, Microsoft added features to its Windows Update facility which allow it to be configured, on a machine-by-machine basis, to not forcibly upgrade qualifying Windows 7 and 8.1 operating systems to Windows 10. However, Microsoft did not make this configuration simple. It requires the use of the group policy editor (which is not present in some qualifying systems) and/or the system registry. In other words, they created some deep internal configuration options but chose not to provide a simple user-interface to give their users the choice. “Never10” provides that choice.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:03PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @01:03PM (#339462)

    Never 10 - A small free program that hooks the update config and can permanently disable the windows 10 upgrade / nagger.

    For some values of permanently. The only things certain in this world are death, taxes, and that Microsoft's eventually gonna change those settings around or even remove them altogether.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @07:13PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 30 2016, @07:13PM (#339561)

    let me fix that for ya http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ [goodbye-microsoft.com]