Mission impossible? Microsoft has expressed a desire to see Windows 10 power a billion devices by the end of last year, and there is no shortage of circles that accuse the company.
Accuse the company of employing underhand techniques to force the upgrade to the new OS.
The saga is back with a new episode this time, with claims that Redmond has made the switch to the new operating system impossible to block. This report reveals a prompt that has no cancel button, meaning the only way to continue for many is to actually launch the Windows 10 installer.
As this screenshot below shows, the only available options are to reschedule the upgrade, or start it immediately.
This is a huge issue for computers that are required to on all the time and where the work is not saved or backups not available.
However, Microsoft has quickly jumped in to deny the accusations, labeling them false. In fact, the company said that the abovementioned report is fake, as nobody is presented with an upgrade screen like this unless they have manually clicked the Windows 10 upgrade prompt.
And accepted the EULA.
This is what a company spokesperson said of all this:
The report is inaccurate. The Windows 10 upgrade is a choice designed to help people take advantage of the most secure, and most productive Windows. People receive multiple notifications to accept the upgrade, and can reschedule or cancel the upgrade if they wish.
At the end of the day, though, this does not mean Microsoft is playing a totally fair game here.
It is, after all, possible to accept the end user license agreement by mistake, or a mix up, particularly by beginner that click on without actually reading everything on screen. For these users, it becomes very difficult to prevent the upgrade to Windows 10.
The software titan did recently say that it plans on adding an additional step to the process, but not showing a cancel button here is, sort of, kind of, taking things to the extreme.
source:windows10update
