Five years ago today Windows 10 hit general availability and it’s fair to say the operating system has had a lot of low points in its first half-decade.
Five years ago today Windows 10 hit general availability and it’s fair to say the operating system has had a lot of low points in its first half-decade.
Offered free ‚for the first year‘, (leading people to think it would turn into a subscription service after that point), take up wasn’t quite what Microsoft hoped for, so the company started forcing it onto users against their will. Let’s look at some of the more infamous moments Windows 10 users have had to endure.
We got what was our first taste of Microsoft’s buggy updates when the November Update arrived and began uninstalling user programs without permission.
It was so bad, that Microsoft had to pull the update, although it said the problem was down to an „extremely small number of people“ not having their settings preferences retained.
That was bad, but not as bad as Microsoft forcing Windows 10 onto users who didn’t want it, claiming it was doing so to keep them safe. When the number of people running the new OS didn’t increase fast enough, Microsoft took more aggressive steps, making it a recommended update so it would be installed on more systems.
In a new low, Microsoft slipped an advert for its new OS into an Internet Explorer security patch and boosted its aggressive approach to forcing Windows 10 onto users by hiding the decline button, breaking Windows 7, scheduling unwanted upgrades, making clicking the x in the corner of the upgrade nag screen to actually mean ‚yes, I want the upgrade‘, and then giving users just two options when asked if they wanted Windows 10 — ‚yes‘ or ‚yes, now‘.
