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Contort3860@links.hackliberty.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I don’t remember XP or 7 being installed automatically on anyone’s PCs. That was what I was referring to in my previous comment. The “upgrade” to 10 and I think 11 happened automatically, without consent, on some people’s PCs.

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Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I don’t remember 11 being installed on my pc automatically. I’ve waited for over a year before i had to click multiple times to get the upgrade to 11.
I don’t remember 10 being installed automatically over my 7.

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- brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Microsoft was taken to court over forcing the 7->10 upgrade
  
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  - Nobsi@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Read the first few paragraphs of your source. Nothing was forced.
    Thanks for agreeing with me.
    
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    brisk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You stopped too early
    
    For a time, clicking the “X” in the upper right corner of the Windows 10 upgrade prompt window was interpreted as consent to upgrade to the new operating system. The typical expectation for all users is that clicking the “X” ends the program, and in fact, doing so was the only way to reject the free upgrade offer for most of the pop-ups notification’s existence. The same prompt could upgrade your system to Windows 10 without explicit consent if you left you computer on for an extended period, as well. PCWorld received hundreds of reader complaints about “forced” Windows 10 after Microsoft began using those tactics.
    
    The scare quotes are there because there was always technically a way available to avoid the upgrade, but there are two distinct instances listed of users being upgraded without consent.
    
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