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[ExtremeTech] Windows 10 gets one last, desperate nagware update

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Microsoft has one more nagware update for you. As InfoWorld reports, this is an update to the previous full-screen nagware update. Now you get a countdown clock (the exclamation point is free) and a yellow exclamation point in the system tray, just in case you haven't noticed the unusual Windows icon that's been yammering for attention and trying to stealth-upgrade your system for the past 12 months.

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What's disturbing about all this is that Microsoft can't seem to stop. It's like watching a meth-addicted rat punching levers in a Skinner box, except in this case the rat only gets its fix if it hits another download milestone. Someone, somewhere, only gets to eat today if Microsoft manages to convince another 5,000 people to install Windows 10. Really, that's the only thing that makes sense at this point.
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If you click "decline free offer" does it start the upgrade right away? Hahaha
 
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Originally Posted by steelbom View Post

If you click "decline free offer" does it start the upgrade right away? Hahaha
Probably not, Microsoft is more the kind of cynical pushing the limits and so what they'll do is make you watch a promotion video by Steve Ballmer everytime you boot / resume from sleep / unlock.

Except if you live in Nebraska.



Microsoft had a healthy sense of ridicule back then. It's unfortunate that nowadays they are only just another cynical and hypocritical pretend politically correct multinational.
 
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At the end of the countdown, Microsoft will commence their master plan where they and all Windows 10 users will be sucked into an alternate timeline in which a Fascist society led by Microsoft's Cortana AI takes control of the Earth until eventually colonizing space to advance the individual-less collective.

 
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Originally Posted by Techie007 View Post

I've tested it out...that new decline button does nothing but close the dialog, which will be back after a couple days. You can accomplish the same thing by hitting the close button.
yeh i know it does nothing beyond closing the dialog but i believe its no longer in your face every time you turn your computer on pestering you to upgrade and stay hidden in the tray
 
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Honestly I think that if you aren't going to take the free update then obviously you have no plans to EVER move to windows 10.

Think long and hard about it because it would really suck to have to pay for it when you could have got it for free.

Windows 7 is a dying platform.There is already websites that don't support windows 7 and will be plenty more to come.

If you are choosing not to go to 10 then that means your days with windows are numbered and you should start thinking about a permanent alternative.Unless you don't want to use windows anymore in the future,take the free upgrade.

Now this is just my opinion and how I see it.I have held out for this long but I am moving to 10 now along with some friends of mine because I think that I still want a future with windows.

Don't get me wrong,I really don't like the direction Microsoft is taking with this,but I also feel that windows is the best option for me when it comes to computing,and it will be kind of fun to explore all the new options that come with 10.

I also run linux on a few other pc's I have along with a hackintosh,but I like to have all the bases covered.
 
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once I am forced to use windows 10 I will give up using a computer as I really cant afford a new system as my current one has some items and software that windows 10 says are not compatible.
the only thing I would miss about a computer is paying my bills online but, I can always go back to the U.S. Mail and pay my bills by mail.
I don't need gaming, heck I have office pro 2013 (it was free) and all I use is outlook for receiving electronic bill statements, and like said those can be mailed to me.
and if need be my wife can pay our bills online from her office where she works. I really won't miss a computer at home.
 
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Originally Posted by jlhawn View Post

once I am forced to use windows 10 I will give up using a computer as I really cant afford a new system as my current one has some items and software that windows 10 says are not compatible.
the only thing I would miss about a computer is paying my bills online but, I can always go back to the U.S. Mail and pay my bills by mail.
I don't need gaming, heck I have office pro 2013 (it was free) and all I use is outlook for receiving electronic bill statements, and like said those can be mailed to me.
and if need be my wife can pay our bills online from her office where she works. I really won't miss a computer at home.
interested in parting out your rig then?
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Originally Posted by Darkpriest667 View Post

interested in parting out your rig then?
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yes but isn't it like a few more years before I'm forced to use windows 10? I will keep till then as I do play one or 2 games about 3 times a week for an hour at most
as I have been getting motion sickness the last year when gaming. when the time comes I'll just sell the entire system cheap, and I have extra video cards and psu.
 
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Originally Posted by sherlock View Post

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Originally Posted by tp4tissue View Post

No thanks, Win7 4 LYFE
M$ have said it won't support Zen or Kabby Lake( any 2016 new CPU) on any Windows but 10, so you have to either give up CPU upgrade forever or go linux.

Resistance is Futile
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I'd still be using my Nehalem if the motherboard didn't die.

At the rate things are going now no-one is going to "need" to upgrade their CPU until well into the 2020's.
Isn't single thread performance supposed to go down with future processors as core count increases?
 
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I'm trying to find a Win7 Copy or a clean torrent to downgradefor the laptop I purchased.
I like the old ways.
I also dual boot to Linux because I can't stand the Win10 OS.
Somehow it has got around all the blocks I put up to stop it from sending data out.
So it will now be removed. I will use Linux till I need Win7.
I have no issues playing DX games ported through Linux I'm not looking for greatest running performance just be able to play my game is fine by me.
Soon Vulkan will help with the gaming issues anyways.
If not oh well I'll just play stupid web based games or something that will keep me fixed.
 
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Originally Posted by jlhawn View Post

Once the deadline has past I wonder if I can enable windows update on my 3 windows 7 computers. it's been disabled since Oct 2015 as I was tired of all the windows 10 crap trying to install every other day.
When you try to update Windows7 it takes about 5 hours of "Searching for updates"
I think MS is down to about 2 servers for Windows7 updates.
 
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Originally Posted by ski-bum View Post

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Originally Posted by jlhawn View Post

Once the deadline has past I wonder if I can enable windows update on my 3 windows 7 computers. it's been disabled since Oct 2015 as I was tired of all the windows 10 crap trying to install every other day.
When you try to update Windows7 it takes about 5 hours of "Searching for updates"
I think MS is down to about 2 servers for Windows7 updates.
There are updates which fix the issue and you should download them manually.

ski-bum PM me if you need the KB numbers.
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Originally Posted by djsi38t View Post

Honestly I think that if you aren't going to take the free update then obviously you have no plans to EVER move to windows 10.

Think long and hard about it because it would really suck to have to pay for it when you could have got it for free.

Windows 7 is a dying platform.There is already websites that don't support windows 7 and will be plenty more to come.

If you are choosing not to go to 10 then that means your days with windows are numbered and you should start thinking about a permanent alternative.Unless you don't want to use windows anymore in the future,take the free upgrade.

Now this is just my opinion and how I see it.I have held out for this long but I am moving to 10 now along with some friends of mine because I think that I still want a future with windows.

Don't get me wrong,I really don't like the direction Microsoft is taking with this,but I also feel that windows is the best option for me when it comes to computing,and it will be kind of fun to explore all the new options that come with 10.

I also run linux on a few other pc's I have along with a hackintosh,but I like to have all the bases covered.
Example? Sounds like bull to me.
 
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Originally Posted by Sleazybigfoot View Post

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Originally Posted by djsi38t View Post

Honestly I think that if you aren't going to take the free update then obviously you have no plans to EVER move to windows 10.

Think long and hard about it because it would really suck to have to pay for it when you could have got it for free.

Windows 7 is a dying platform.There is already websites that don't support windows 7 and will be plenty more to come.

If you are choosing not to go to 10 then that means your days with windows are numbered and you should start thinking about a permanent alternative.Unless you don't want to use windows anymore in the future,take the free upgrade.

Now this is just my opinion and how I see it.I have held out for this long but I am moving to 10 now along with some friends of mine because I think that I still want a future with windows.

Don't get me wrong,I really don't like the direction Microsoft is taking with this,but I also feel that windows is the best option for me when it comes to computing,and it will be kind of fun to explore all the new options that come with 10.

I also run linux on a few other pc's I have along with a hackintosh,but I like to have all the bases covered.
Example? Sounds like bull to me.
No need to question it; the statement is nonsense.
 
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Originally Posted by djsi38t View Post

Windows 7 is a dying platform.There is already websites that don't support windows 7 and will be plenty more to come..
Please do provide evidence of such. Websites are not compiled for operating systems, they are rendered via a Browser, which Firefox and Chrome fully support Windows 7.

IF you are speaking of Netflix / Edge browser fiasco, I don't want to go there.
 
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